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Getting Soccer Fans Into Art? That’s the Goal.

LONDON — Annie Lawrence, 8, was looking excited on Sunday afternoon. She was about to see Tottenham Hotspur, the soccer team she supports, play its first game of the English Premier League season — but her exhilaration wasn’t entirely because of the impending game.

Lawrence was standing in OOF, a gallery dedicated to art about soccer that opened last month in a building attached to the club’s stadium gift shop. Some of the works on display seemed to be making her as happy as a Tottenham win.

OFF’s opening show, “Balls” (until Nov. 21) features 17 pieces of contemporary art made using soccer balls, or representing them.