graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
Our latest subject is Ivica Surjak, strikingly-coiffed in the Seventies’
manner, a sticker of whom was included amongst the selection of Yugoslavian
players represented in the Panini ’München 74’ collectors’ album & who was
chosen for his nation’s official squad for the World Cup, where he went on to appear
– ‘memorably’, for the name of Surjak is one of the relatively few I can recall
from exposure to the television coverage of the tournament, where Yugoslavia
would have enjoyed a higher profile than some teams by dint of being drawn in
the same First Round group as the sole British representatives Scotland – in each
of their six matches, scoring twice, in the 9 - 0 rout of Zaire & then the final second
phase group fixture, a 1 – 2 loss to Sweden.
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