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The Adidas Telstar 18 was the official match ball of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which was held in the Russian Federation. It was designed by the company Adidas , a FIFA Partner and FIFA World Cup official match ball supplier since 1970, and based on the concept of the first Adidas's World Cup match ball . [ 2 ]
The same ball but with different design (depending on competition) was used in UEFA Champions League from 2008 through 2009 and in 2009 UEFA Super Cup and 2009–10 UEFA Europa League. The Terrapass , similar to Europass ball, was used in the 2009 European Under-21 and Women's European Championship , as well as some international matches.
It was consequently developed into the Adidas Tango 12 series of footballs. [citation needed] Jabulani, meaning "be happy!" in Zulu, is the imperative plural form of the verb jabula "to be happy". [1] Its design was much maligned by players at the World Cup, and production ceased after two years. [citation needed]
In the 1970s, the U.S.-based North American Soccer League experimented with printing players' names on their shirts and allocating each player a squad number rather than simply numbering the 11 players starting a game from 1 to 11, but these ideas did not catch on at the time in other countries. [68]
Mandatory is a typeface developed from the Charles Wright typeface, [1] introduced for use on vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom.Its block letters and numbers are designed to prevent easy modification and to improve legibility, with stroke separation on the M and W which are pointed at the centre, and the tail of the Q which is thinner and clearer.
The Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The 32-panel configuration had been introduced in 1962 by Select Sport , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and was also used in the official logo for the 1970 World Cup. [ 6 ]
The Adidas Tango 12 (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtaŋɡɔ dvaˈnaɕtɕɛ]) was the official match ball of the UEFA Euro 2012, [1] with variants being used for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The ball is named after the original and successful Adidas Tango family of footballs from the late 1970s, but the construction of the Tango 12 is completely different.
The professional soccer player turned chief executive recently revealed that he gave out his number to every single Adidas employee (that’s 60,000 workers, no less) during his first town hall at ...