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Adolf "Adi" Dassler, the founder of the sportswear company Adidas, was innovating and producing the best football products of his time.
Adidas started developing high-performance match balls in 1963, most balls were heavy and painful to kick. These days Adidas and Cairos Technologies have presented the new Goal Line Technology and the Adidas intelligent football.
First adidas Official Match Ball was for the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
This is the history in pictures of the official Adidas balls in the FIFA World Cups and the UEFA European Championships.
1970 FIFA World Cup Mexico - Telstar
1974 FIFA World Cup West Germany - Telstar Durlast
1978 FIFA World Cup Argentina - Tango Durlast
1982 FIFA World Cup Spain - Tango Espana
1984 UEFA European Championship France - Tango Mundial
1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico - Azteca
1988 UEFA European Championship West Germany - Tango Europa
1990 FIFA World Cup Italy - Etrvsco
1992 UEFA European Championship Sweden - Etrvsco Unico (same as 1990 FIFA)
1994 FIFA World Cup USA - Questra
1996 UEFA European Championship England - Questra Europa
1998 FIFA World Cup France - Tricolore
2000 UEFA European Championship Belgium / Netherlands - Terrestra Silverstream
2002 FIFA World Cup Korea / Japan - Fevernova
2004 UEFA European Championship Portugal - Roteiro
2006 FIFA World Cup Germany - Teamgeist
2008 UEFA European Championship Austria / Switzerland - Europass
New intelligent technology is designed to assist the referee’s decision in determining when and if the ball has crossed the goal line.
Adidas and Cairos in cooperation with FIFA, have developed the Goal Line Technology, which was first publicly tested in 2005 during the U-17 FIFA World Cup in Peru.
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