AS SURE AS night following day, and England disappointing at a major tournament, you can bet there will be some hand-wringing and moaning about the World Cup football this summer.
Adidas have been responsible for making the official ball since Mexico 70 and this image shows how the design has changed and evolved over the years.
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The first four balls were made from leather before the fully synthetic ‘Azteca’ was introduced for Mexico 86.
Since then there have been a number of improvements using fancy-sounding materials like “hi-tech PU foam”, “syntactic foam” and “3-D spherically formed EVA and PU panels… moulded together, harmoniously enveloping the inner carcass.”
It’s a football, lads. They kick it into the goal. Spare us the waffle.
I only play with footballs made with the leather of the Cuban Greater Funnel-Eared Bat and sewn together with golden thread..
Hi christiano, I thought you were brilliant the other night, in fact you should have played from the start and not just brought on for a photo op, loved the incredible sulk pose, that’ll shift a lot of underpants.
What a load of balls.
The 2002 ball was great
Some hop off it!!
I’d take a Teamgeist from Germany ’06 any day!
For me the Tango, is like, totes amazeballs!
That is the coolest picture I have ever seen