How did soccer ball design get so out-of-control? Here is an excerpt of that essay ️: The Adidas Telstar ⚽️ was reportedly ...

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 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.

where instead of having a single soccer ball for the final, the adidas Telstar was replaced with the red Teslar Mechta for the entirety of the knockout stage. In Qatar, a variation of the Al Rihla ...

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 ...