Telstar Durlast
Telstar Durlast - also known as Telstar for the time being - was the official name of the match ball for the football World Cup in Mexico in 1970 and in Germany in 1974 and the European Football Championship in Belgium in 1972 and in Yugoslavia in 1976 . The Telstar is a design classic of the 20th century.
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The international football association FIFA has been commissioning the sporting goods manufacturer adidas to supply soccer balls since 1970 . The first of its kind, known under the name Telstar , shaped the new look of match balls in football. The ball developed and sold by the German manufacturer was the first World Cup ball with black spots on a white background. Originally, the matchball, named after the Telstar satellite , was externally adapted to the black-and-white televisions of the time (color televisions had been around for several years in all major football countries, but these were still very expensive and therefore not very common) To be able to recognize it better, but this structure of a football is still used today.
The Telstar was the first World Cup soccer ball to use the structure of a truncated icosahedron ; earlier footballs were usually made of 18 elongated strips of leather, similar to a volleyball today , and were usually brown in color. With 20 white hexagonal and twelve black pentagonal panels, both the structure of the Telstar and its playability revolutionized the sport of football, and so the ball with a slightly different print, but with identical properties, was also used at the 1974 World Cup in Germany.
An original match ball from the 1970 World Cup without a printed logo, which was verifiably used to warm up in the Italy-Germany semi-finals on June 17, 1970, was sold in 2007 for US $ 3,000 to a collector from Guadalajara . The whereabouts of the other 499 of the 500 Telstar balls produced for this World Cup remain unclear.
Other editions of the ball, which consists of hexagonal and pentagonal panels, were the red-brown Apollo Durlast , the completely white Chile Durlast and the Tango Durlast used at the 1978 World Cup .
Although the Telstar in its original form was officially used for less than a decade and was never introduced in many national leagues, its design, which is as simple as it is distinctive, shaped the popular image of a "typical" football like no other type of ball. It is no coincidence that footballs are used around the world. B. in drawings or in the case of decorative objects such as plush balls or key fobs to this day mostly shown in the Telstar form.
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Individual evidence
Tiento / T-Model ( 1930 ) | Federale 102 ( 1934 ) | Allen ( 1938 ) | Super Duplo T ( 1950 ) | Swiss WC Match Ball ( 1954 ) | Top Star ( 1958 ) | Mr. Crack ( 1962 ) | Challenge 4-Star ( 1966 ) | Telstar ( 1970 ) | Telstar Durlast ( 1974 ) | Tango Durlast ( 1978 ) | Tango España ( 1982 ) | Azteca México ( 1986 ) | Etrusco Unico ( 1990 ) | Questra ( 1994 ) | Tricolore ( 1998 ) | Fevernova ( 2002 ) | + Team Spirit ( 2006 ) | Jabulani ( 2010 ) | Brazuca ( 2014 ) | Telstar 18 (group phase) and Telstar Mechta (knockout phase) ( 2018 )
Football Women's World Cup
Etrusco ( 1991 ) |
Questra ( 1995 ) |
Icon ( 1999 ) |
Fevernova ( 2003 ) |
+ Team spirit ( 2007 ) |
Speedcell ( 2011 ) |
conext15 ( 2015 )
Telstar Durlast ( 1972 ) | Telstar Durlast ( 1976 ) | Tango Italia ( 1980 ) | Tango Mundial ( 1984 ) | Tango Europe ( 1988 ) | Etrusco Unico ( 1992 ) | Questra Europe ( 1996 ) | Terrestra Silverstream ( 2000 ) | Roteiro ( 2004 ) | Europass ( 2008 ) | Tango 12 ( 2012 ) | Beau Jeu / Fracas ( 2016 )