Adidas Teamgeist

Team spirit is the official name of the products marketed by adidas match ball of the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany and the World Cup of Women in China in 2007.

Development

Men's World Cup 2006

Team spirit was developed by the adidas Innovation Team and the Molten Corporation at Loughborough University and tested at the U-17 World Cup in Peru in 2005 for the first time. The ball was officially presented at the Final Draw for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Leipzig on 9 December 2005.

The arrangement of the panels 14 to a total of more rounded structure than the conventional form of twelve pentagons and 20 hexagons can be achieved, which has only a difference of 0.1 % compared to an ideal sphere. In the finale a gold-colored version of the ball with the name team spirit Berlin was used.

Women's World Cup 2007

During the 2006 Men 's World Cup the same match ball for the FIFA Women's World Cup was established in June 2006 in Berlin at the so-called women's football day, introduced in China in 2007. The ball has the same features as that of the previous ball. The design was inspired by the event logo and the traditional Chinese colors red and blue.