World Cup Footballs From 1978 Tango to 2002 Fevernova (the best ever made), arriving to the new match ball for Russia 2018

Every World Cup has its own story, with its accounts, its games, and its characters. To give to a competition like this a soul, though, are the infinite details that contribute to making it, including the ones that determinate the aesthetic of every tournament. Of course, we’re talking about the shirts, the stadiums, the players but also about one of the aspects that are normally considered only by football maniacs, the match balls.

Eventually arriving at today, when we’re months away to the kick off of the Russia 2018 World Cup. And if the attention was risen by the presentation of the first national teams’ kits, we must not forget about what will be the protagonist of the football summer. And according to some solid rumors - even if there’s nothing official - the Russia 2018 match ball will be the adidas Telstar inspired, just like the kits presented by the Three Stripes, by the past. The match ball graphics, in fact, should recall the ones used during the Sixties and Seventies tournament.

Maybe because the years pass, but the protagonist of the game is always the same: the football.