Allan Weber Football Scarf

Cinco Bocas FC x Art of Football

We’re excited to share a new football scarf created in collaboration with Rio de Janeiro-based artist Allan Weber and Nottingham’s clothing brand Art of Football (AOF), produced to coincide with Weber’s exhibition My Order at DLWP.

The collaboration began during the first iteration of the exhibition, when AOF and Weber co-designed a scarf celebrating the grassroots, community-led values shared by AOF and Cinco Bocas FC, a youth football team founded by Weber in his neighbourhood of Cinco Bocas.

In 2020, Weber opened Galeria 5 Bocas, an art gallery in his local community, offering young people new pathways and creative possibilities. From this, Cinco Bocas FC was born. The team gathers at the gallery before and after matches, blurring the boundaries between sport, art and everyday life.

Inspired by football nostalgia, fan culture and the DIY aesthetics of banners and scarves, this new edition is a reflection on the power of football to create spaces of collective joy and belonging.

The scarf features a Portuguese sentence ‘existe uma vida inteira que tu não conhece’, which translates to ‘there is a whole life you don’t know about’. This reflects on how certain lives and communities remain less visible than others.