Soccer Ball
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1975
label: date made
content: 1975
name: label: user
content: North American Soccer League
label: maker
content: Adidas
notes: label: Description
content: The soccer ball has evolved over the years, but the most famous model is the Adidas Telstar. It is made of leather and consists of 32 hand-stitched panels - 12 black pentagons and 20 white hexagons. These shapes are used to create the “roundest sphere of all time.” The use of white and black made the ball more visible on television. The first was used in 1970 for the FIFA (International Federation of Football Association) World Cup.
label: Description
content: Different leagues began to use different colored balls to create “trademark” looks. The red, white, and blue ball shown here was used in the NASL’s (North American Soccer League) first championship game. The “Soccer Bowl,” as NASL commissioner Phil Woosnam christened it, was played on August 24, 1975, in San Jose, California, between the Tampa Bay Rowdies and the Portland Timbers, two expansion teams that joined the league that year. Tampa Bay beat the all-British Timbers, 2-0, and became the third consecutive expansion team to take the NASL crown.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
title: label: Title
content: Soccer Ball, used in the 1975 NASL Championship Game
topic: label: name of sport
content: Soccer
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
label: See more items in
content: Artifact Walls exhibit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: North American Soccer League
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1059.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.1059
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1059.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ball
label: Object Name
content: ball, soccer
label: Object Name
content: soccer ball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in; x 17.78 cm