My first encounter with the Adidas Tango soccer ball came in the late 1980s, when I was just a stupid tiny person who thought the coolest part about soccer was that you got to wear “shields ...

This is the classic look for a soccer ball. The Telstar was used for the 1970 and '74 World Cups and was surpassed in coolness by only one ball… The Adidas Tango España was the official ball of ...

It wasn't until 1855, when Charles Goodyear patented vulcanized rubber, that soccer balls started taking shape. Literally.

IKER Casillas, captain of European champions and World Cup holders Spain, got his reliable hands on the official match ball for Euro 2012, the adidas Tango... Monday, 22 July 2024 ...

French World Cup, French soccer ball: The Paris-manufactured ... Image: Balones Oficiales. Again, the Tango was a huge success—and Adidas knew it. So for Spain four years later, it kept the ...

Ever. “Engineering on the ball is through the roof,” says Ernesto Bruce, Adidas’ head of soccer for North America. “Once again we introduced new technology.” Brazuca, meaning ...

In this video, we explore the craftsmanship and technology behind Adidas soccer balls, used by athletes around the world. Did you know that an original ball can cost $170? Millions of these balls ...

Welcome to soccer, a sport with, counterintuitively, an abundance of balls. In a highly unusual yet rewarding strategy, Adidas develops a new model for the sport’s biggest event every four years.

More than two-thirds of the world’s soccer balls are made in one of the town’s 1,000 factories. That includes the Adidas Al Rihla, the official ball of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar ...

Another much-awaited part of these competitions is the official ball. In the pas ... This year though, we have the Adidas Tango 12, which has promised to be the most dependable of the lot, again.