+ Team spirit

The official match ball of the 2006 World Cup

The final ball with gold-colored panels: Teamgeist Berlin

The team spirit gallery in the Adidas World of Football in Berlin

+ Teamgeist is the official name of the match ball sold by adidas for the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2007 Women's World Cup in China .

development

Men's World Cup 2006

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

The arrangement of 14 panels is intended to achieve an overall rounder structure than the conventional shape of twelve pentagons and 20 hexagons, which only deviates from an ideal sphere by 0.1%. A gold-colored version of the ball called + Teamgeist Berlin was used in the final .

	FIFA standard	team spirit
scope	68.5-69.5 cm	69.0-69.25 cm
diameter	22 cm; Deviation ≤ 1.5%	22 cm; Deviation ≤ 1.0%
Weight	420-445  g	441-444 g
Water absorption	≤ 10% weight gain	≤ 0.1% weight gain
deformation	≤ 10 cm	≤ 2 cm
Pressure loss	≤ 20%	≤ 11%

See also

• World Cup fountain
• Europass
• wawa aba
• Adidas final

Web links

Commons : Adidas Teamgeist  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ adidas unveils the match ball for the 2006 FIFA World Cup - tested at Loughborough University
2. ↑ ^{a b} team spirit at Soccerballworld