{"id":114,"date":"2008-09-07T19:56:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2010\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2020-10-26T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:43:37","slug":"badges-stars-and-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2008\/09\/07\/badges-stars-and-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Badges, stars and balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winners of the World Cup can now display a badge as well as stars on the national shirt.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Original image at FIFA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/photogallery\/gallery=868165.html#868140\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/mm\/photo\/tournament\/competition\/86\/81\/39\/868139%5ffull-lnd.jpg\" alt=\"World Cup winners badge\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe &#8216;FIFA World Champions Badge&#8217; on the Italian shirt<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it looks like the Italian FA has incorporated the stars into their badge design &#8212; previously the stars would circle the national FA&#8217;s badge, with a new one added for each World Cup won.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 320px\"><span  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/06\/10\/china-v-brazil-seogwipo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/korea\/jeju\/chibra_four_stars.jpg\" alt=\"Four stars on the 2002 Brazil football shirt\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four stars on the 2002 Brazil football shirt<\/small><\/div>\n<p>Why is this relevant to us? Well, at one point we thought that The Ball could represent the star that gets awarded at the end of the competition. That&#8217;s why the 2002 and 2006 films start with The Ball emerging from the heavens, descending to its starting point in Battersea Park like a shooting star coming down to earth. In a sense, the star on the shirt is a memory of that year&#8217;s Ball and the games played with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners of the World Cup can now display a badge as well as stars on the national shirt. The &#8216;FIFA World Champions Badge&#8217; on the Italian shirt In fact, it looks like the Italian FA has incorporated the stars into their badge design &#8212; previously the stars would circle the national FA&#8217;s badge, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ball"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}