A Penalty Saved, Amsterdam, 1928

Argentina’s goalkeeper stops a penalty in the semi-final the papers scored six to nothing.

Work: press photograph
Maker: Spaarnestad Photo
Date: 1928
Ground: Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Spaarnestad Photo, Haarlem · via Wikimedia Commons
Figure: Octavio Díaz — publicity clear

A save in a semi-final won six to nothing.

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

Amsterdam, the 1928 Olympic semi-final, Argentina against Egypt. The Dutch press archive’s caption records the moment: the Argentine goalkeeper Octavio Díaz stops a penalty, in a match Argentina won six to nothing. Díaz, born in 1900, kept goal for Rosario Central and played nine times for his country between 1926 and 1928, winning the South American Championship of 1927. Days later Argentina lost the final to Uruguay, and Díaz went home with a silver medal. It was the last Olympic tournament before the first World Cup, and this is its goalkeeper at full stretch.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

A Penalty Saved, Amsterdam, 1928, printed large and framed — in the den, the club bar, the supporters’ bar. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

A Penalty Saved, Amsterdam, 1928 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of press photograph — Spaarnestad Photo, 1928 — from the copy held by Spaarnestad Photo, Haarlem · via Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
Printed faithful to that source scan — restore honestly, disclose always. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the piece you receive is the image as it survives, halftone grain honored as history, not damage.
Printed to order on museum-grade cotton-rag stock with pigment inks — the pairing is rated 100+ years.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the period’s, not ours.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed editions ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our pieces cost more than a poster: a poster is a mass run on wood-pulp stock, colour-corrected to whatever flattered the press that day. This is one sheet, pulled for you, at a size where the maker’s hand is visible — the linework, the halftone grain, the lettering — on materials made to outlast their owner.

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