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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

For the Americans:

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So what one thinks of as the classic football/soccer ball, and indeed which is depicted as the ⚽️ emoji, is just the Mexico 1970 ball?

[–] littletoolshed@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I found this on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigil_Nielsen_(footballer,_born_1918):

Eigil Nielsen is credited with creating the common 32-panel football design in 1962 using 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal patches. It quickly became popular when the Adidas Telstar in 1970 became the first football in the World Cup to use the design.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

The 1970 ball (Adidas Telstar) is pretty iconic because it was specifically designed to be more visible on television broadcasts in the era when most viewers had black-and-white TVs.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.run 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

why does the 62 ball have "crack" written on it?

[–] littletoolshed@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Some parts of Latin America use crack to refer of someone who is very good at something, started on football but nowadays it's used with everything, it's a synonym for superstar, ace, legend, etc.

[–] Linnce@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Although it's written as craque. Maybe it was once crack?

[–] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Brazilians use craque.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Looks pretty gay 😏

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Something about that 1966 ball hits my brain different and I want one.

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Is volleyball

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I completely forgot there was a world cup in Russia.

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe, just Maybe, it has to do sth with the fact that we got obliterated. The last tournament I watched before the European Tournament was the world cup in 2014

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Bold of Russia to put pixelated hentai all over their ball.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

1970-2002 ... are there any differences besides print that I'm not seeing? It seems to me to be 9 times the same ball.

[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I tend to get new soccer balls only when there's a world cup. I just buy the current world cup replica. My favourites are South Africa and Qatar.