graphite & putty eraser/30x21cm
The second subject of the project is Jean-Claude Désir of
Haiti, who was chosen for selection in both the FKS & Panini ‘World Cup
1974’ sticker albums that are serving as our original source material, &
also as a member of his country’s official squad for the tournament, where he
subsequently played in all 3 of Haiti’s first round group matches/defeats
before their elimination at that stage.
Another of the predominantly unknown to me participants in
the 1974 World Cup, during its time or since until investing in one or other of
the albums, little detail seems to be available on the facts of the player’s
career, but here’s a rather interesting newspaper photograph of the NASL’s Detroit
Cougars squad for 1968, featuring a certain ‘John Desir’ second from the left
of the front row, to shed at least a little light: another of the subsequent
Haiti squad, Claude Barthélemy, is also pictured as a member of the Cougars’.
By the time of the ’74 World Cup, Desir had returned to play his club football
in Haiti, for Aigle Noir AC.
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