The French sculptor Abel Lafleur had been commissioned by Jules Rimet before. Lafleur had made medals for tournaments in France where Rimet was a football administrator. Rimet was also president of FIFA and Lafleur was the obvious choice to design a trophy for the competition FIFA had planned. Lafleur’s inspiration for the trophy was the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Greek sculpture depicting Nike or Victory, dating from the second century BC but with one wing attached in the 19th century and which has been at the Louvre since the 1880s. The Winged Victory of Samothrace was originally believed to…

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