Picture a football (soccer ball) in your head and you probably ... Thus was borne the “knuckleball” phenomenon. An Adidas Telstar from the 1974 World Cup. The original Telstar design actually ...

How did soccer ball design get so out-of-control? Here is an excerpt of that essay ️: The Adidas Telstar ⚽️ was reportedly designed with TV in mind, replacing a series of balls boasting ...

Adidas created the Telstar, which - with its black-and-white panels to improve visibility on television at the first World Cup to be broadcast worldwide - would become an iconic ball. It was not ...