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

Thus was borne the “knuckleball” phenomenon. An Adidas Telstar from the 1974 World Cup. The original Telstar design actually predates 1974, and the combination of 12 pentagonal and 20 ...

As the manufacturer of the official ball for the tournament, adidas developed a soccer ball based on shapes from Ancient Greek arithmetic: the Telstar ball was formed of 12 black pentagons and 20 ...

Adidas released the Telstar 18 on Thursday, which will be the exclusive ball used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The ball's design is meant to hearken back to one of the most iconic balls in ...

GOAL charts the evolution of the official FIFA World Cup match ball, from the Telstar and Tango to the Jabulani and Al Rihla ...