Adidas has supplied balls for the World Cup since 1970. Through 2002, each ball was made with the iconic 32-panel construction. The 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal panels were traditionally made of ...

The new World Cup ball comes from historic stock: the original Telstar was the first ball to use the now-familiar truncasted icosahedrom — 12 black pentagonal panels and 20 white ones.

The new World Cup ball carries the name Jabulani, which is Zulu for “to celebrate.” The soccer players who are using it have another name for it: disaster. This wonder of technology that took ...

Buy Now. Where: Russia, 2018. The Telstar 18 ball harkens back to the Telstar ball introduced for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, both in name and visual cues. It features a black-and-white design ...

The new Club World Cup ball has 20 thermally-bonded panels, the same structure as the Al Rihla from the men’s World Cup two and a half years ago.

The World Cup finally started today with Germany and Costa Rica providing one of the better opening matches in recent memory. The official ball of the tournament, the Adidas Teamgeist (or “team ...

Evolution of the World Cup ball. The Adidas Telstar, featured in the 1970 and 1974 World Cups, is what many people imagine when they think of a soccer ball. shine2010, CC BY.

Evolution of the World Cup ball. Adidas has supplied balls for the World Cup since 1970. Through 2002, each ball was made with the iconic 32-panel construction.

The World Cup ball is made up of 11 different colours. These represent the 11 players in each team, the 11 languages of South Africa and the 11 cultural communities that make up the nation.

The Golden Ball has been awarded to the best player of the World Cup for each tournament since 1982, when it was Italy’s Paolo Rossi who led the squad to their third win. It came over West Germany.

As with every World Cup, at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar the players will be using a new ball. The last thing competitors want is for the most important piece of equipment in the most ...