How did soccer ball design get so out-of-control? Here is an excerpt of that essay ️: The Adidas Telstar ⚽️ was reportedly designed with TV in mind, replacing a series of balls boasting different ...

adidas developed a soccer ball based on shapes from Ancient Greek arithmetic: the Telstar ball was formed of 12 black pentagons and 20 white hexagons, stitched together in a perfect circle.

The ball's design is meant to hearken back to one of the most iconic balls in soccer lore, the original adidas Telstar, which was used in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. That ball was the first to ...

Picture a football (soccer ball) in your head and you probably ... Thus was borne the “knuckleball” phenomenon. An Adidas Telstar from the 1974 World Cup. The original Telstar design actually ...

Adidas created the Telstar, which - with its black-and-white panels to improve visibility on television at the first World Cup to be broadcast worldwide - would become an iconic ball. It was not ...