Adidas Telstar
Initially also called Telstar - - Telstar Durlast was both the official name of the game ball of the soccer World Cup 1970 in Mexico and 1974 in Germany and the European Football Championship 1972 in Belgium and 1976 in Yugoslavia.
Properties
Since 1970, the international football federation FIFA instructed the sporting goods manufacturer with the supply of footballs. The first of its kind to be known as Telstar, the new look of the game balls coined in football. The ball developed and distributed by the German manufacturer was the first with black spots on a white background. Originally named after the satellite Telstar game ball was apparently adapted to the former black and white televisions ( although there was that time in all major football countries for several years color TV, but they were still very expensive and therefore not very common ) to to be able to recognize him better, but this structure is to a football still used today.
The Telstar was the first football who used to build a Ikosaederstumpfes; Earlier footballs were usually composed of 18 elongated leather strip, much like today, a volleyball, and typically had had a brown color. With 20 white hexagonal and twelve pentagonal black panels revolutionized both the structure of Telstar and its playability in football, and thus the ball with a slightly altered imprint, but identical properties as well at the football World Cup in 1974 was used in Germany.
An original match ball of the 1970 World Cup without logo imprint, which was demonstrably used in the semi-final Italy - Germany on June 17, 1970 warm up, was sold in 2007 for $ 3,000 to a collector from Guadalajara. However, of the other 499 of the 500 produced for this World Cup Telstar balls of your whereabouts remains unknown.
More editions of consisting of hexagonal and pentagonal panels Balls were the red-brown Apollo Durlast, the all-white Chile Durlast and used in the FIFA World Cup 1978 Tango Durlast.
Although the Telstar in its original form less than a decade has been officially used, and has never been introduced in many national leagues, he coined in his simple but striking design like no other type of ball the popular image of a "typical " football. Not coincidentally, footballs, for example, world usually represented in drawings or in the case of decorative objects such as balls or plush keychain today in the Telstar form. The Telstar is a design classic of the 20th century.
Trivia
Fullerenes, which in addition to the best-known - diamond and graphite - represent further modifications of the chemical element carbon, are sphere-like molecules of high symmetry. The most prominent, C60, similar to the Telstar Durlast: at the 60 "corners" are carbon atoms along the 90 " seams " bonds. Therefore, this molecule is often called " football molecule " means.