Ossie ardiles signed print is of Ossie lifting the FA cup. 16x12inch, double mounted and framed in silver, comes complete with a certificate of authenticty.
Osvaldo César Ardiles (born August 3, 1952in Córdoba Province) commonly known as Ossie Ardiles is a football coach and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentinian national team.
A competitive and skilled midfielder, he became a cult hero in England. along with Glenn Hoddle and compatriot Ricardo Villa, as a player for Tottenham Hotspur. He notably left England for a period as a result of the outbreak of the Falklands War in 1982, thus missing most of the 1982–83 season.
As manager of Tottenham in the mid-1990s, he famously played several matches utilizing a formation that had five forwards, a formation that hadn't been used in English football since the 1950s, which "Ossie" (or "Pitón", as he is affectively known in his native country) mainly used because of Tottenham's perceived defensive weakness.
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 17 April, 2008.
