graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
Today’s drawing is a ‘re-mediation’ of an enlarged photocopy of an
original sticker image of Gunter Netzer as
was/is featured in the FKS ‘Wonderful World of Soccer Stars World Cup
1974’ album, this original source chosen
over the one that was included in the Panini ’München 74’ collection.
Although
it would soon emerge from personal immersion in the game that Netzer was a big
name in international football in the Seventies, & had starred for West
Germany as they had stylishly won the 1972 European Championship, he played only
the bittiest of parts at the ’74 World Cup, with but a single 69th-minute
substitute appearance, in the defeat to East Germany, to his name (a minute less,
indeed, than Horst Hottges in the same match), which thus remained unknown to me at the time.
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