Adrian Mangel

Trequartista is an Italian term for a footballer who serves as a team’s creative fulcrum; their role is free of positional rigidity. Creativity and serendipity are their only concerns. Here, in a previously unpublished commission, we celebrate the great players of African descent who set the world of global football ablaze.

Adrian Mangel, a graduate of Parsons the New School for Design, is a Costa Rican illustrator and graphic designer. His past as a competitive tennis player in his youth, along with his passion for sports, shape and inform his work, which has been published and shown around the world, and recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, and 3x3. After a decade living in NYC, he has recently relocated to sunny Los Angeles.