graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
The latest randomly-chosen ‘star’ of the project is Dušan Bajević, a
sticker representing whom appeared in each of the FKS & Panini albums
published to preview & commemorate the 1974 World Cup, & who was
selected in the official Yugoslavia squad for the tournament, where he went on
to appear in 3 matches – the First Round group record-equalling thrashing of
Zaire, to which he contributed a hat-trick of goals (one of the two achieved at
the ’74 Finals); the subsequent 1 – 1 draw with Scotland, being substituted for
Stanislav Karasi, who scored the Yugoslavs’ goal; & the Second Round group
match loss to Poland.
Dušan Bajević was another of the unknown names to me of World Cup ’74
prior to engaging/indulging in this particular drawing project, but research
reveals that the club for whom he played at the time was one of our
then-Yugoslavian favourites, Velez Mostar, being thus a team-mate of Vahid Halilhodzic, which information necessitated another delve into the original
Yugoslavian football memorabilia ‘Fudbaleri i Timovi’ 1974/75 season album to
discover that ‘Duško’ Bajević is indeed featured in portrait sticker form.
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