THE 2019 RUGBY WORLD CUP IN JAPAN

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Japan Pavillion Exhibition for Rugby World Cup

Rugby-like Football games were played on flat ground in Yokohama in south Tokyo by the British and perhaps other Europeans from the 1860’s. Who knows how many locals joined in too, perhaps also American sailors? Here we see an early engraving of a scrummage, during a game that is thought to be between Scottish and English players, watched by the intrigued populous. The flag of the Yokohama Foot Ball Club is flying on a bamboo pole, against the fine backdrop of a snow-tipped Mount Fuji.

FOOT-BALL AT YOKOHAMA, TOKYO in 1874
LFA were pleased to loan this historic Football print for display

A newspaper account in The Japan Times records a meeting held on January 26th 1866, to found the “Yokohama Foot-Ball Club”. Over forty names came forward to support the Club, including two or three Rugby and Winchester [school] men in the Community”, and it was stated that “we may be certain that we shall have really good scientific play.”

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‘The Womens Game’ – Paris, June/July 2019

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LFA are delighted  to loan material for two summer temporary exhibitions on women’s football history to the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich and in Paris. The free entry exhibitions adjoin the fan zone (Les Halles) during the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup competition. The Paris exhibition has been visited by over 30,000 members of the public and at Enge, Zurich some innovative techniques were used to engage school children and adults in learning experiences over the history of women’s participation in Football and the fight for recognition and participation.

A range of items including playing kit, die cut Victorian images, photographs, ceramics, badges, pictures and a statue were beautifully displayed thanks to the FIFA Museum curation expertise, with the exhibitions organised and designed by Hyundai Motor Company.