1978 World Cup Painted Ball

Product Name : 1978 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 : Tango Durlast

Artist Name : Fatemeh Zarei

Size : 5

Weight (gr) : 394 – 404

Has a signature : Yes

Materials :

The 1978 World Cup came back to America, being hosted by Argentina. In respect of the official ball, this edition represented a great milestone, because Adidas launched a model with a revolutionary design: the Tango – inspired by the classic dance of Argentina. This ball was identically constructed to the previous World Cup ball, the Telstar from 1974. It was composed of 32 hand sewn leather panels (20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal) and covered by the Durlast coating (applied with the same thickness of the 1974 Telstar) to
make the ball more resistant and waterproof. The design consisted of 20 black and promptly curved triangles, each one printed onto the white coloured surface of each hexagonal panel. Since the pentagonal panels were white coloured too, the triangles created a series of black and elegant circles on a white surface. When the ball was rotating, a nice effect was created by the black circles, which was visually very attractive.

About Tango Durlast:

For World Cup 1978 has been created ball Tango, which according to the authors should reflect the elegance, dynamism and passion. The design used 20 triads, create an optical impression of 12 identical circles. One advantage of Tango compared to other balls was considered as improved resistance to weathering.