Soccer Ball History

Where do you think the soccer ball came from? In South America Indians they would have to use light elastic size ball. Ruber was later, like in a thousand years later. Legends and reference say that it were human heads, stitch up clothes, animal or human skulls, and pig or cow bladder. (Soccer Ball World History) Chinese play “tsu-chu” which is animal skin made ball. Ancient Rome and Greeks carry and kick the ball around. But yet in the Medieval times they kick the skulls it was one village versus another, and in the medieval customs they would use a pig bladder inflate and they use feet and hands to keep the “ball” in the air. (Soccer Ball World History) In 1836 Charles Goodyear patented vulcanized rubber. When they have the ball they have
to take into consideration of the size and shape of the pig’s bladder. The 20th Century balls were made out of rubber. (Soccer Ball World History) But later in 1855 Goodyear designed and built the first rubber soccer ball. H. J. Lindon developed the first inflated rubber bladders in 1856 so a year later than Goodyear. Lindon was inspired to do the inflated bladders because blowing into the pig bladder make the person ill. (Soccer Ball World History) Round balls are easy to kick but the oval balls are more easy to handle. The Football Association in 1863 had no rules over the ball. But until 1872 the ball had to be spherical with 27-28 inches. (Soccer Ball World History) And yet 65 years later in 1937 the weight was establish to 13-15 the maximum and 14-16 maximum. Mitre and Tomlinson of Glasgow were the first two companies to have mass production of soccer balls in 1888.
A top grade of a soccer ball is going to be the rump of a cow while a low grade is the shoulder of a cow. (Soccer Ball World History) When the “better balls” started to came out they were very painful when you hit the ball with the head, due to, it was heavy and water absorbent, which caused head injuries. After those incidents happen white ball started to come out in 1951 they were washed leather, but they weren't officially used till the early 1892. They later introduced an orange ball till 1950’s they made it so the players and everyone could see the ball in the snow. (Soccer Ball World History) Different countries favored different ball, “The soccer ball may have even played a part in the outcome of the first World Cup in 1930.” (Soccer Ball World History) They say that the ball could affect the outcome because in the first World Cup Argentina played Uruguay. Of course since there were many different balls, Argentina had a different ball than Uruguay. For the first half they used Argentina’s ball (2–1) then for the last half they used Uruguay’s ball which made them win (4-2). (Soccer Ball World History) Now synthetic leather patches sewn together in a
design based and it was called Buckmaster Ball or in called for short Buckyball. The designed consist of 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal shapes to make a near perfect sphere. The first “official” FIFA World Cup soccer ball was the Adidas Telstar used in 1970 World Cup in Mexico. (Soccer Ball World History) They also made the Optimum soccer ball it was flight accurate, waterproof, fast in flight, and also transfers the forces of the player kicking the ball. On June 1990 soccer public wanted to start the FIFA World Cup in Italy, Adidas conclude that they would want a lighter more responsive ball, one that would be perfect for a gifted player. Adidas later came up with “Questra” which means the quest for the star. (Soccer Ball World History) If you invented to soccer ball im guessing their passion was soccer, right?