1966 World Cup Painted Ball

Product Name : 1966 World Cup Painted Ball

Date of Registration : 02/01/2023

Category Art : Painting

Art Field : Visual Arts

Total Production : One Collection with Twenty Three Balls

Production Year : 2022

Art Style : Acrylic

Ball Name : Slazenger 25 Challenge

Artist Name : Fatemeh Zarei

Size : 5

Weight (gr) : 370 – 382

Has a signature : Yes

Materials :

The Slazenger Challenge was made of high quality leather and entirely hand sewn. It was composed of 25 rectangular panels, joined together in a way that was very similar to the 1958 ball and which differed only in the panel which contained the valve. In the Slazenger
ball the valve was in the centre of a small panel between two other, even shorter panels.
The remaining panels were the same as the 1958 ball and the inflating system was the latest type valve – latex rubber. This ball provided excellent sphericity, and its composition was adopted over the years by other brands. The balls of the 1966 World Cup were
provided in three different colours: white, yellow, and orange. Although the most widely used model was the white one, in the memory of football fans the orange ball of the historic final of Wembley remains the strongest.

About Slazenger 25 Challenge :

The match ball used during the 1966 World Cup final, as England beat West Germany 4-2. Geoff Hurst famously scored a hat trick for England, but the ball was claimed by Helmut Haller and only returned to England in 1996. This object is displayed courtesy of Eurostar, Mirror Group and Virgin