Football (Soccer), 1972, by Otl Aicher

This vibrant poster features three football players captured in dynamic motion against a predominantly green background. The design employs a technique called "posterization," which separates the tonal qualities of photographic images, creating distinct colour blocks in bright greens, blues, and yellows. The central figures show three soccer players in mid-action - one dribbling past two opponents. A soccer ball is visible in the lower portion of the image against the stylized field. The bottom of the poster features the text "München 1972" in light blue along with the Olympic rings symbol and the distinctive spiral sunburst logo of the 1972 Munich Games.

The poster was created as part of the official series of sports posters for the XXth Olympic Games held in Munich, West Germany in 1972. The design team produced 21 sports posters to advertise the different competitions at the games, using the official design colours and including the logo and "München 1972" text. The spiral sunburst logo visible on the poster represented "a crown of rays of light" symbolizing the spirit of the Munich Games—"light, freshness, generosity"—expressed by the design concept "Radiant Munich." The graphic program created for the 1972 Munich Olympics is widely considered one of the best-designed Olympic visual identities, setting "a new standard for the design of the Games" and becoming "an influential model not only for the design of sporting events but for comprehensive identity programs of any kind." These posters were displayed throughout Munich and around the Olympic venues, often hung in pairs alongside posters designed by famous artists such as David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, and Allen Jones, who were commissioned to create works for the Games. The 1972 Munich Olympics took place from August 26 to September 11, 1972, and are also remembered for the tragic terrorist attack on the Israeli team that occurred during the Games.

Otl Aicher (1922–1991) was the lead designer of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. A key figure in postwar German graphic design, Aicher was co-founder of the influential Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, which championed rational design rooted in function. For Munich 1972, he created a cohesive identity encompassing signage, typography, pictograms and colour systems.