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I feel more than a little disgruntled by the World Cup of 2022, for all the obvious reasons.
That said, I must confess to you, I do love football. Perhaps you know it as soccer? In Scotland they call it Kicky McGwinch, in Australia it’s netbusters, and in Iceland it’s tip-tap-toë.
O’er the years I’ve made all sorts of drawings about the beautiful game, you’ll find some of them below, starting with a piece for the New Yorker.
World Cup Yearbook 2018, New Yorker
You can also find Ronaldo, Neymar and more at the New Yorker.
Euro Heroes
The New Yorker cartoons (above) were grown from some nonsense I was doing in my sketchbook:
Secretary of Defence
American goalkeeper, Tim Howard, made a record sixteen saves versus Belgium in the 2014 World Cup quarter-finals. The waffle enthusiasts still ended up winning (2-1), but T-How’s heroics earned him a phone call with President Barack Obama—so that was pretty cool.
Bend it like Beckham
You’d be forgiven for thinking that snazzy Dave was all hair and underpants—but this gentleman could play; he had a wand of a right foot and played more than 100 times for England.
Lionel “Leo” Messi
Just because this is probably his last World Cup, another drawing of Messi. He’s scored more than ninety goals for Argentina. More than you and I, combined.
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