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For the Americans:
So what one thinks of as the classic football/soccer ball, and indeed which is depicted as the ⚽️ emoji, is just the Mexico 1970 ball?
I found this on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigil_Nielsen_(footballer,_born_1918):
Eigil Nielsen is credited with creating the common 32-panel football design in 1962 using 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal patches. It quickly became popular when the Adidas Telstar in 1970 became the first football in the World Cup to use the design.
The 1970 ball (Adidas Telstar) is pretty iconic because it was specifically designed to be more visible on television broadcasts in the era when most viewers had black-and-white TVs.
why does the 62 ball have "crack" written on it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_(ball)
It doesn’t really explain ‘why’ 😅
Neither does this one 🤷♂️: http://soccerballscollection.com/BALL_CRACK_WORLD_CUP_CHILE_1962_CRACK_HISTORY.htm
Some parts of Latin America use crack to refer of someone who is very good at something, started on football but nowadays it's used with everything, it's a synonym for superstar, ace, legend, etc.
Although it's written as craque. Maybe it was once crack?
Brazilians use craque.
2022 - Qatar
Looks pretty gay 😏
Something about that 1966 ball hits my brain different and I want one.
Is volleyball
I completely forgot there was a world cup in Russia.
Maybe, just Maybe, it has to do sth with the fact that we got obliterated. The last tournament I watched before the European Tournament was the world cup in 2014
Bold of Russia to put pixelated hentai all over their ball.
1970-2002 ... are there any differences besides print that I'm not seeing? It seems to me to be 9 times the same ball.
I tend to get new soccer balls only when there's a world cup. I just buy the current world cup replica. My favourites are South Africa and Qatar.
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