The Olympic Final, Colombes, 9 June 1924

Uruguay against Switzerland for the world title before there was a World Cup.

Work: glass plate negative, Agence Rol, 9 June 1924
Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1924
Ground: Stade de Colombes, Paris
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1924 · Wikimedia Commons

Won by a country of a million and a half.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

The 9th of June, 1924, at Colombes: Uruguay 3, Switzerland 0, in front of a crowd that had spent a fortnight discovering a kind of football it did not know existed. The Olympic tournament was the world championship in all but name, and Uruguay — a country of a million and a half people who had crossed the Atlantic by boat and paid their way with exhibition matches — won it playing the most technically advanced game anyone in Europe had seen. Six years later they hosted and won the first World Cup. This is where that began. The first world championship was won by a country of a million and a half.

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The piece, in the room it was made for

The Olympic Final, Colombes, 9 June 1924, 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.

The Olympic Final, Colombes, 9 June 1924 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of glass plate negative, Agence Rol, 9 June 1924 — Agence Rol, 1924 — from the copy held by Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1924 · 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.
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