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Football

Form of team game played with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Football

8 images from works
  • Two footballers tumbling on top of each other on the pitch with the message about the risk of HIV in the heat of the moment; one of a series of three advertisements for safer sex by the Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Etienne and Etienne.
  • Three players from the Manu Samoa football team in blue and white; advertising AIDS prevention in Samoa. Colour lithograph.
  • The statement in French "I am HIV Positive. All you risk in playing sport with me, is to be beaten hands down"; an advertisement by L'agence de Prevention du SIDA Lutte contre l'Exclusion des séropositifs. Colour lithograph ca. 1996.
  • A footballer grabs the genitals of another player on the pitch with the message about the risk of HIV in the heat of the moment; one of a series of three advertisements for safer sex by the Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Etienne and Etienne.
  • Four athletes in various poses: a runner at the finishing line, a footballer saving a goal, a tennis player poised to hit the ball and numerous hands reaching up for a basket ball with the message in Italian 'Not for a record but for life. AIDS. The important win'; an advertisement by the Commissione Nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS, Ministero della Sanità and CONL [?] Colour lithgoraph, ca. 1995.
  • The kick-off at an American football match, representing the first Glaxo Wellcome bond issue. Drawing by O. Copplestone, 1995.
  • The kick-off at an American football match, representing the first Glaxo Wellcome bond issue. Drawing by O. Copplestone, 1995.
  • The statement in French "I am HIV Positive. All you risk in playing sport with me, is to be beaten hands down"; an advertisement by L'agence de Prevention du SIDA Lutte contre l'Exclusion des séropositifs. Colour lithograph ca. 1995.

Works from the collections

19 works

    • Ephemera

    Football 7-a-side : Riverbank Arena, Olympic Park : 3 September, start time:14:00.

    | Date: 2012
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Three players from the Manu Samoa football team in blue and white; advertising AIDS prevention in Samoa. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 669705i
    • Ephemera

    Football : Wembley Stadium, London : London 2012 Olympic Games official spectator guide : [not barcoded] / London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

    | Date: 2012
    • Ephemera

    Football : Wembley Stadium, north-west London : 09 August, 19:45 start time, R16 entry code.

    | Date: 2012
    • Books

    Schuss : Die geheime Dopinggeschichte des Fußballs / Thomas Kistner.

    Kistner, Thomas, 1958- | Date: 2015

Related topics

Sports
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Wembley
2012 Summer Olympics
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention

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