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Football in South Africa

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

boston.com has just published a set of beautiful pictures of football in South Africa during the Confederations Cup. Included in the set are recent photos of how the construction of the Soccer City stadium is coming along. This stadium will be hosting the Opening Ceremony and is the final destination of The Ball as it [...]

Posted by Christian Wach

The power of involvement

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Special Olympics just posted a story on their website, the main gist of which I’ve quoted here:
I had resigned myself to the fact that my son would never prosper in anything but seeing him participating in the young athlete activities I realised that he had a talent in sports and now I have hope that [...]

Posted by Christian Wach

World Cup Trophy Tour

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Coca Cola and FIFA have announced details of their World Cup trophy tour:
[The trophy] will begin its journey from the FIFA Headquarters on September 21, 2009, will travel around the world before arriving in the host country of South Africa on May 4, 2010. The total distance the tour will travel is 134,017 kilometers [...]

Posted by Christian Wach

The Ball and Special Olympics

Friday, May 29th, 2009

This has been a great week for The Ball. The big news is that we’ve signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Special Olympics. Special Olympics are going to be organising Unified Football festivals for The Ball to visit as it makes its way to South Africa. The Ball, in turn, will be supporting the great [...]

Posted by Christian Wach

Want to go to the World Cup Final?

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Unfortunately you can’t — unless you already have a ticket:
The second phase of ticket sales for the opening match, semi-finals and the final of the 2010 Fifa World Cup has been sold out.
Fifa said on Thursday the second phase had seen 105 322 tickets confirmed and approved so far.
“Due to a high demand for certain [...]

Posted by Christian Wach

adidas drop hints about the 2010 ball

Friday, February 27th, 2009

The Kopanya ball on Flickr
From the Cape Argus:
The ball, manufactured by adidas, will be used exclusively in World Cup matches and is expected to be unveiled at Fifa’s final draw in Cape Town in December, Gavin Cowley, managing director of Adidas SA, has revealed.
Speaking during the bi-weekly 2010 lecture series in Green Point last night, [...]

Posted by Christian Wach

The Rules

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

A while back, I wrote a post about IFAB, commenting on the curious lack of transparency in that organisation. Well, it’s that time of year when they meet again. Today, FIFA published the agenda for the 2009 AGM of the IFAB. As ever, they’re going to be slumming it…

“Slieve Donard Hotel” by Vironevaeh on Flickr
Some [...]

Posted by Christian Wach

Alive and Kicking

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

We’re very proud to announce that The Ball for 2010 will be made by Alive & Kicking in South Africa. This amazing project makes cheap, tough, repairable footballs, netballs and volleyballs, using African skills and African leather. Each carries a message about HIV/AIDS and malaria.

The Ball 2010 will be “an African ball made for the [...]

Posted by Christian Wach

Badges, stars and balls

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Winners of the World Cup can now display a badge as well as stars on the national shirt.

The ‘FIFA World Champions Badge’ on the Italian shirt
In fact, it looks like the Italian FA has incorporated the stars into their badge design — previously the stars would circle the national FA’s badge, with a new one [...]

Posted by Christian Wach

The Olympic Ball

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Keeping you up to date on official balls…

The Olympic Ball

A soccer ball identical to the balls to be used in Olympic soccer competition is seen in an Adidas store in Beijing Tuesday July 29, 2008. The ball, called Adidas Magnus Moenia, or Great Wall Star, and featuring the Chinese characters for “China” was specially designed for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

via Yahoo

Posted by Christian Wach

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