1982 World Cup posters
For some editions of the World Cup, as well as a poster commemorating the host country, a poster for each host city was commissioned. I was recently lucky enough to share a house with the posters of some of the Spanish cities that hosted matches in 1982, but I have been unable to find an online resource displaying all of them. The posters are a fantastic piece of football art history so, for the sake of posterity, I am going to curate a collection of the works here (for ‘curate’ read ‘nick from other websites’).
Below are pictured the host country poster and the fourteen host city posters of the 1982 World Cup.
HOST COUNTRY
Spain – Joan Miró
image via artistposter.com
HOST CITIES
Alicante – Pierre Alechinsky
via artistposter.com
Barcelona – Antoni Tàpies
via ebay’s carteles82
Bilbao – Eduardo Chillida
via Vintage European Posters
Elche – Jiří Kolář
via artistposter.com
Gijón – Gérard Titus-Carmel
via artistposter.com
La Coruña – Erró
via artistposter.com
Madrid – Eduardo Arroyo
via gal-123.com
Málaga – Roland Topor
via carteles82
Oviedo – Pol Bury
via artistposter.com
Sevilla – Antonio Saura
via artistposter.com
Valencia – Valerio Adami
via carteles82
Valladolid – Vladimir Veličković
via artistposter.com
Vigo – Jacques Monory
via artistposter.com
Zaragoza – Jean-Michel Folon
via artistposter.com
Adami’s Valencia is one of my favourites. The winged ball is begging to be made into a team crest:
How it would look on an Umbro shirt:
