World Cup Footballs

Every World Cup has its own story, with its accounts, its games, and its characters. To give to a competition like this a soul, though, are the infinite details that contribute to making it, including the ones that determinate the aesthetic of every tournament. Of course, we’re talking about the shirts, the stadiums, the players but also about one of the aspects that are normally considered only by football maniacs, the match balls.

Throughout every edition of the World Cup, we gradually attended to the evolution of the design, the fabrics, the performances, and the iconography behind the most important item of this sport. For many years, from 1978 to 1998, the distinctive traits of the hosting countries have been placed inside of the triangular shapes of the legendary adidas Tango, survived to six editions of the World Cup. Then, starting from the 2002 tournament in Japan and Korea, footballs started to fully represent the hosting countries of the World Cup. From the Fevernova - in our opinion, the best football ever made by humankind - to Brazuca, stepping by Teamgeist, match ball of the magic summer of 2006, and the Jabulani of the first tournament played on African soil.

Eventually arriving at today, when we’re months away to the kick off of the Russia 2018 World Cup. And if the attention was risen by the presentation of the first national teams’ kits, we must not forget about what will be the protagonist of the football summer. And according to some solid rumors - even if there’s nothing official - the Russia 2018 match ball will be the adidas Telstar inspired, just like the kits presented by the Three Stripes, by the past. The match ball graphics, in fact, should recall the ones used during the Sixties and Seventies tournament.

Maybe because the years pass, but the protagonist of the game is always the same: the football.