The Uruguay Eleven, Colombes, 1924

The team photograph of the first world champions, taken on the day.

Work: team photograph, 9 June 1924
Maker: Unknown photographer
Date: 1924
Ground: Stade de Colombes, Paris
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Unknown photographer, 1924 · Wikimedia Commons

The same eleven men, twice, six years apart.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

The eleven who won at Colombes on the 9th of June, 1924, photographed in the standard pose on the ground where they did it. Six of them would still be playing when Uruguay won the first World Cup at the Estadio Centenario in 1930 — José Nasazzi, José Andrade, Héctor Scarone among them — which makes this the earliest photograph of the side that would go on to win everything twice. Andrade, the first great black footballer of the international game, is in it. Look at this one next to the 1930 final and count the faces you recognise. The same eleven men, twice, six years apart.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

The Uruguay Eleven, Colombes, 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 Uruguay Eleven, Colombes, 1924 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of team photograph, 9 June 1924 — Unknown photographer, 1924 — from the copy held by Unknown photographer, 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.
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.

From the same hand