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 ...

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 ...

In 1978, Adidas introduced the Tango - named after the famous dance of hosts Argentina. It has gone on to become one of the most popular balls ever made, but Adidas were evidently somewhat nervy ...

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 ...

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.

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.