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Quiz! Can you name every World Cup match ball since 1970?

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Each World Cup match ball since Adidas started manufacturing it – can you match the year to the ball?

Head coach Vicente del Bosque of Spain heads a ball during a training session, ahead of their 2010 World Cup Stage 2 Round of 16 match against Portugal, at the Green Point Stadium on June 28, 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa.
(Image credit: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)

You have 10 minutes to name 14 balls – six decoys, too.

Remember to tweet your scores @FourFourTwo, and challenge some friends while you're at it.

THEN TRY Quiz! Can you match the England shirt to the description?

Once upon a time, all footballs used to be orangey brown… and very, very heavy.

Then came Adidas in 1970 with a brand new kind of ball. It was black and white, looked like a satellite and it was an incredible design innovation. Kids would soon draw a football on this design.

It didn't stop there. Over the years, the German manufacturer would re-invent the very sphere used at the World Cup, creating bespoke balls for every tournament to reflect the competition and its new host every time. Everyone remembers their first.

But can you remember what the ball from your first World Cup was called?

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Mark White
Mark White
Content Editor

Mark White has been at on FourFourTwo since joining in January 2020, first as a staff writer before becoming content editor in 2023. An encyclopedia of football shirts and boots knowledge – both past and present – Mark has also represented FFT at both FA Cup and League Cup finals (though didn't receive a winners' medal on either occasion) and has written pieces for the mag ranging on subjects from Bobby Robson's season at Barcelona to Robinho's career. He has written cover features for the mag on Mikel Arteta and Martin Odegaard, and is assisted by his cat, Rosie, who has interned for the brand since lockdown.