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"For decades, each subsequent competition saw an evolution in ball design. Still, most held to a similar format made up of parallel and perpendicular leather strips — that is, until the iconic Telstar ball hit the field..
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Developed by ADIDAS , the Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. ..
"..one could be forgiven for accepting at face value a widely-circulated claim that Buckminster Fuller designed the modern soccer ball .. In fact, the ball was named after (and looks like) a key communications satellite launched in 1962..
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