Adidas Questra

Questra is the name of the official match ball of the FIFA World Cup 1994 in the USA. The ball was used with a slightly different design as Questra Europe at the European Football Championship in England in 1996, as well as Questra Olympics at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Properties

Questra is manufactured and marketed by adidas football and was the mid-1990s for the worldwide spread Ball, which was used in both the World Cup and the European Championship and the Olympic Games. The name Questra is derived from the English phrase "quest for the stars " ( German: Reaching for the Stars ), whereupon also the small star - and planet -like figures suggest the hexagonal panels and to the glory days of the American space program and the space Exploration remember.

Questra was the first match ball with a high-tech layer of white polyethylene with very high energy return and had including a foamed, compression -layer- header with shock-absorbing properties. It was used with a slightly modified design also with other major tournaments through its modern and popular feeling. At the European Championships in England a blue ornate design of the ball, which should represent the " Three Lions " with a red rose in the middle. At the Olympic Games adorned three torches the hexagonal panels of the ball. It was the first colored footballs at major football tournaments.

The last edition of the ball was the Questra Apollo, which was used in the Spanish Primera División. He pointed to where the logo of the Real Federación Española de Fútbol, however, no changes.