In 1970, in Mexico, the year the Brazilian team won the three -time championship, the ball used became synonymous with a “soccer ball”, as redundant it may seem. THE chose the official supplier of sports equipment. The company was inspired by US designer Buckminster Fuller to develop the ball used at that year’s World Cup. Adidas adopted geodetic domes to get the best possible circumference with 32 buds. The pentagons were painted black and white hexagons, precisely to facilitate visualization in TV broadcasts, especially in the case of televisions that did not capture the colors.
For the first time, the ball of a World Cup was named: Telstara reference to the similarity to the homonymous satellite responsible for the broadcast of games to Europe. This design, with black and white buds, perhaps the best known in the world, was repeated in the World Cup in Germany in 1974.
In 2026, the World Cup returns to North America, and the ball was named after Triondaa reference to “Hello”, Movement that became popular in the stands in 1986, the second time Mexico received the World Cup. The country will host the competition with the United States and Canada again. A Trionda It has three colors: the blue of the Americans, the red of the Canadians and the green of the Mexicans. The ball also brings symbols that refer to the flags of the three nations: the US stars, the onboard sheet of Canada and the Mexico Eagle.
The next pantry ball will have a side chip system, a sensor placed inside a layer created especially in one of the four panels that form the design. The technology is more accurate and will help with VAR decisions. Lastly, the Trionda will have great stability to make life easier for players, unlike the Rejoiceused in 2010, in South Africa, and which was considered unpredictable, mainly by goalkeepers. The largest pantry of all time runs from June 11 to July 19 with the unprecedented number of 64 teams.
