[IP encyclopedia] Soccer ball is science’ history of World Cup official ball

Soccer ball [Photo provided : Image today]

Patent : Soccer ball (USD199535S)

Year 1964

Country : U.S.A

Region : Newyork

Name : Max Doss

What is the most popular sport among modern sports? you can imagine the top 3 ball game Soccer base ball and basket ball first. Among them soccer which has a long history of international tournament is of course the top sports. The more if it is a ball game the more scientific sources are highly included so lets take a look at scientific source soccer ball patent and history of World Cup official ball in IP encyclopedia today.

World sports tournament started since 1896 with Athens Summer Olympics and major international tournament was held such as Winter Olympics and World Cup. World cup including soccer has been started in Uruguay since 1930 and except two competition of 1942s and 1946s that was cancelled for World War II it proceeds continually.

World cup could be played with designated ball selected by FIFA(Fédération Internationale de Football Association: World Football Federation). For this reason official ball which is approved by FIFA is symbol of competition and factors that determine win or lose. Therefore whenever it is released it was focused. Actually it is precisely studied about performance of ball before the competition in each national team when releasing the official ball.

Official ball which came along with the World Cup history can be divided by Telstar that is used in the mexico World Cup in 1970 into before and after. The reason is existing soccer ball was based on the shape of volley ball so it was difficult to find out the characteristics.

From ‘T-model’ of the first world cup that is held in Uruguay to Federale 102‘ in 1934 Allen in 1938 Duplo T in 1950 Swiss World Champion in 1954 all of the features were same having similar pattern within brown ball. In 1958 Top Star used white leather for the first time and Crack which was official competition ball in 1962 was yellow In 1966 it was focused with using red color as Challenge 4-star model for the first time in England competition.

Colors were being changed in variety but it is remained normally like volley ball pattern. However official ball which has found identity of soccer ball from Mexico World Cup in 1970 has been appeared. It is Telstar which is beginning of World Cup official ball.

Telstar is comprised of pentagonal and hexagonal that means global village of 5 oceans and 6 continents. It is implemented perfect geometric form that is combined with 20 white regular hexagons and 12 black regular pentagons. This geometric form is called for Truncated icosahedron. It is a scientific soccer ball which is comprised of perfect round shape

Also it was semantically a developed shape. The name of Telstar was aired into all over the world by introducing satellite from Mexico World Cup for the first time in the world so to commemorate with this Telstar abbreviation of Television star was made with first broadcast communication satellite Telstar. At that time almost all of the homes had incompatible color system TV so white and black color had been used in order to look clear in the screen.

Telstar model which was innovative subject in the official ball remained its shape until the Germany World Cup which was held in 2006. In 1974 existing model was made with natural leather in West Germany World Cup and the Argentina world Cup in 1978 innovative season of design came with the model Tango River Plate. 12 circle shape was made at surface by putting triangular pattern into 20 regular hexagons. Various figure can be seen in the one soccer ball from pentagonal hexagon to circle shape.

After that time at the Spain World Cup in 1982 material which was made with polyurethane and natural leather from existing model was first shown and competition held in Mexico again in 1986 the shape of Tango model which was made with only 100% letherette made with synthetic resin was replaced with mural pattern of Aztec civilization.

After that time official ball which generally came from Tango model and Telstar became popular. Tango design which was settled as a representative in the official balls was changed to Fevermova the official ball of Korea and Japan World Cup that remains big memories to our Korean people in 2002.

Fevermova is appreciated as a transitional official ball which was added with advanced science. Unlike existing official ball the balls characteristic was unique elasticity. In the competition athlete had to adjust in new elasticity and it was abnormal competition that strong France Italy and Portugal were dropped out on the other hand Turkey and Korea that were appreciated as the weak team had came up to quarterfinals.

In 2006 the Germany World Cup official ball ‘Teamgeist (Team spirit) released completely different soccer ball. Unlike other existing official ball which was comprised of pentagon and hexagon it is made of 6 pieces of dumbbell shape and 8 pieces of windmill shape consisting total 14 pieces. The reason for making a new form was to widen the extent that was occupied in each pieces of circle. It was intent to make almost similarly to perfect circle.

Before then pieces had been knotted with sew now pieces has been attached with technology that is Teamgeist which is bonding technology. Official ball which nearly comes to circle shape was less receiving resistance than before so official ball which was kicked by athlete started to draw unique trajectory and it became famous for ball for striker who is using unrotating shoot by being accelerated speed of ball.

After that time from Jabulani South Africa World Cup official ball in 2014 to Brazuca Brazil World Cup official ball the result of study comes out that is reducing pieces. However among the athlete the dissatisfaction surged. It was difficult to control the ball due to unknown trajectory of ball.

There was no competition in 2020 however Telstar which was the start of the modern official soccer ball became 50th year anniversary at the Russia World Cup in 2018 official ball which was commemorating 50th Telstar was released named Telstar 18. It was not pentagon and hexagon as it used to be but it has comprised of 6 pieces of dagger shape. It was made of minimum number of pieces and by equipping with NFC (Near Field Communications) the storage of location of the ball movement of the ball speed of the ball etc was being able to be saved as a data within chip attached

World Cup official ball which is equipped with textile engineering physical science and digital science. Of course it can not be known to open the Katar World Cup in 2022 including Tokyo Olympic due to the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020. In Covid-19 era that is assigned with sports trend of having no audience competition. Could we see the Official ball of 2022 World Cup? The answer is depending on the world wide of people who are preparing for the Covid- 19.

FIFA logo [Photo provided : FIFA official homepage]

From 1930s official ball to 1966s official ball [Photo provided : FIFA official homepage]

World Cup official ball Telstar Patent [Photo provided : Google patents]

From official ball since 1970 to official ball in 1998 [Photo provided : FIFA official homepage]

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