Seeking info Flat Jedi ST145.024 "First World Football Day 1973"

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Im looking for info on not just the watch but some history of the First World Football Day hosted in Barcelona 1973.

Omega did a special commemorative watch for this event. I can barely find any info on the watch or the event. As it happens I am in possession of one of these watches, well this exact watch that is featured HERE

Antiquorum sold one back in 2007 HERE but mine has a different serial.

Can anyone shed any light on either?

 
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“It was a friendly charity match played in October 1973 (4:4). It was played on a day that the FIFA called 'world football day' (a year earlier in 1972 was on the same date also a charity game played) and the financial benefits of the game went to Africa. Match was played in Camp Nou and had only 15000 visitors. Cruijff played 45 minutes and was according to reports lined-up as, I cite, "his 1960s center-forward role". He played only 45 minutes because Barcelona wanted to preserve him and because he was supposedly not entirely fit - which he often was.

Visible is how vastly different the pitches were back then.

Goalscorers were: Sotil, Eusebio, Keita, Cubillas, Asensi, Jara, Brindisi and Chumpitaz.”

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/johan-cruyff-matches-and-goals-scored.1865250/page-66