graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
Today’s randomly-chosen subject represents Dimitar Penev, a
sticker of whom appeared in both the FKS & Panini collectors’ albums
previewing the 1974 World Cup, & who was subsequently selected as a member
of the Bulgaria squad for the Finals, where he appeared in all three of his
country’s First Round matches (after which they suffered elimination), as,
indeed, he had previously done in both the 1966 & 1970 World Cups (where
the same unsuccessful fate had befallen Bulgaria: indeed, it was not until the
1994 tournament, when Penev was now their manager, that the Bulgarians won a
match at a World Cup & advanced beyond the opening phase, going all the
way, in fact, to the semi-finals on that occasion).
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