graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
Today we (re)present, randomly-chosen as usual, what constitutes the
fourth of the Project’s subjects & drawings processed from a constructed
‘sticker’ image, of one of the vividly-remembered names from my experience of
the televised coverage of the 1974 World Cup who previously had appeared in
neither the FKS ‘Wonderful World of Soccer Stars World Cup 1974’ or Panini ’München
74’ commemorative albums which have
inspired & provide the original source material for the Project.
This, then, is a re-mediated image, of a 1974ish vintage, of Andrzej
Szarmach, who came to be selected as a member of the Poland squad for the
Finals, subsequently starting in six of the Poles’ matches (being substituted
in five), scoring 5 goals, all in the First Round & including a hat-trick
in the 7 – 0 thrashing of Haiti, missing the only game the Poles lost,
crucially, to West Germany in the countries’ effective semi-final: given this
transpiration of events, he might reasonably be regarded as being the tournament’s surprise packages’ surprise
package, but instantly memorable for his exploits, & subsequently achieving
some form of legendary status by playing at both the 1978 & 1982 World Cups & scoring a
goal at each.
