4hw.com.cn: the 2018 World Cup is in full swing. In the past two days, there is a rumor that football leaks on the field. The world cup has a history of 88 years. Next, let's take a look at the history of football changes with Xiaobian.
Hide and bladder football
On July 15, 2004, Blatter, the then president of FIFA, announced publicly that football originated in Zibo City, Shandong Province, China. He believed that modern football came from ancient China, through Egypt and Greece, into Europe and finally to Britain.
Although this view has been strongly opposed by some British scholars (they think that modern football has nothing to do with ancient football, and that English talents are the inventors of football), it is an indisputable fact that although in terms of playing methods and rules, there is a gap between ancient Chinese Cuju and modern football, the balls used are inextricably linked.
First of all, the ball gall. According to the records in the book of beginnings, the inner part of the ball used in Cuju in the Tang Dynasty was inflated by the bladder of animals. That is to say, the earliest hollow gall football (the balls before the Tang Dynasty were all piled up with sackcloth inside) is unique. The British, who claimed to be the inventor of modern football, also had an inflated bladder of pigs or cows inside the ball. In these inflatable bladder wrapped with a layer of hide (mainly hard cow leather), it became the first modern football. Until an American named Goodyear discovered the function of rubber, people began to replace the bladder with rubber and put it inside the sphere.
The ball used in Cuju in Tang Dynasty
T-ball with strap
In addition to the wonderful material, the appearance of early football is also unusual. If you get a football from the beginning of the 20th century, you will find that there is no air hole on it, instead of a belt that looks like a shoelace. Because the appearance is composed of pieces of T-shaped leather, the football at this time is called "T-shaped ball". From 1930 to 1938, the first three world cups used this kind of football.
For the first World Cup, Argentina's football is on the left and Uruguay's on the right
Here's an episode. In the present football match, if the player kicks the ball, or the ball flies to the stands and is taken away by the fans, he will immediately change a ball to continue the match. But in the first World Cup in 1930, the ball was not broken or lost, but had to be replaced. Because FIFA did not arrange a unified match ball, so Uruguay and Argentina, who entered the final, insisted on using their own football. In order to be fair, they had to play one ball in half. Argentina's football is on the left and Uruguay's on the right.
From the Second World Cup in 1934, FIFA began to provide the ball for competition. In the following games, although the appearance of the ball was not the same, it was almost the same as the first one in general. It was made of pieces of leather with different sizes and lengths. The colors were various, including coffee, yellow and orange. In appearance, football at that time was more like volleyball.
The age of black and white football
Because of the World War II, the world cup was forced to be closed after 1938. It was 1950 that the world cup was returned again. At this time, due to the rapid development of science and technology, a small thing called invisible air valve came out. Its appearance made football no longer need to open a big hole to fill the bladder or rubber filled with air. For the first time in the world cup, porous football appeared.
1950 World Cup ball (network diagram)
Another 12 years later, at the 1962 World Cup in Chile, the splicing method of football skin was no longer similar to the volleyball strip, but composed of 18 irregular polygons. For the first time, it had the familiar appearance.
1962 World Cup Official ball crack (Phoenix)
In the 1970 Mexico world cup, FIFA cooperated with adidas for the first time. The latter began to provide match balls for the world cup. The ball is called "TV star". The surface of the ball consists of 12 black pentagonal leather and 20 white hexagonal leather. From then on, this kind of football composed of 32 pieces of irregular polygonal leather officially began to appear on the stage of history.
Black and white football 'TV star' of the 1970 World Cup (network picture).
It is worth noting that in order to commemorate the birth of black and white football, this year's Russian World Cup ball is also called 'TV star'
Less leather, more color
From 1970 to 1994, although the appearance of football changed slightly, the configuration of 32 pieces of black-and-white leather remained unchanged, and it was inevitable to feel aesthetic fatigue after watching for a long time. In order to change this situation, Adidas boldly launched a red, white and blue colored football with the same color as the French flag at the 1998 World Cup in France.
Color ball in 1998 World Cup (network diagram)
Farewell to the black and white era, the color of the World Cup ball has become more and more colorful. Among them, the "Samba glory" used in the 2014 Brazil world cup has 11 colors on the surface of the ball, such as red, blue, green, orange and white. Interestingly, this year's match ball in Russia has been restored to the classic black-and-white configuration, but the black part has changed from polygon to trapezoid with mosaic.
Different from the rich colors, the leather blocks of the world cup balls are decreasing. In 2006, the German World Cup balls were composed of 14 ball skins integrated by hot bonding technology, which for the first time bid farewell to the era of hand sewing. However, in 2010, 2014 and 2018, the number of ball skins was only 8, 6 and 6 pieces, which reduced the concave and convex feeling on the surface of football, helped to improve the accuracy of football and laid a foundation for the excellence of the game.
Russian World Cup ball (network diagram)
From bladder to rubber; from T-ball with belt to color ball without concave convex feeling; from hand sewing to hot bonding technology; from inside to outside, football constantly changes its appearance. How will it change next? Let's wait and see!