FEW OF US ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE A WORLD CUP MATCH LIVE.WITH MORE THAN ONE BILLION OTHER SPECTATORS,WE RELY ON TELEVISION FOOTAGE FOR OUR IMAGES OF THE GAME,WHICH THEN PROVIDE POWERFUL MEMORIES FOR YERRS TO COME.THE 100 STUNNING IMAGES IN THIS BOOK,CREATED FROM FOOTAGE OF THE WORLD CUP SINCE 1938.CAPTURE THE GREATEST EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME,ALLOWING US TO RELIVE EACH MOMENT.
World Cup football draws a television audienceof more than one biIlion people around the globe,the largest worldwide audience of any sportingevent.Even those born since the matches tookplace are familiar with footage of Maradona’sbrilliant individual goal in 1986 and BobbyMoore’s moment of triumph in 1966.
With unprecedented accessto FIFA’Scollectionof footage.artist Robert Davies has spent severalyears scrutinizing every World Cup tournamentsince the competition was launched in 1930,searching out those heart—stopping momentsthat have Si nce become part of our col Iectivememory.Using this footage,he has createdmore than 100 highly original photographs thatencapsu late the most celebrated and the mostnotorious episodes in the history of the game,images that tease and prompt our memoriesthrough framing,cropping and abstractingthe original film stills.
Gianluca VialIi.former Italian internationaland winner of the UEFA Champions League withJuventus.and Richard WiIIiams,award—winnlngsports iournalist,introduce the book,while briefcaptions define each moment and provide allthe essential detailS of the matches.
In 90 Minures Robert Davies offers US photographs that epitomize the passion and prowess of the players and present compelling moments of football as never seen before.