{"id":117,"date":"2009-02-27T09:38:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2010\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2009-02-27T09:38:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:38:35","slug":"adidas-drop-hints-about-the-2010-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/adidas-drop-hints-about-the-2010-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"adidas drop hints about the 2010 ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3403\/3251122460_6319e6d757.jpg\" alt=\"The Kopanya ball on Flickr\" \/><br \/>\nThe Kopanya ball on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shine2010\/3251122460\/\">Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Cape Argus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ball, manufactured by adidas, will be used exclusively in World Cup matches and is expected to be unveiled at Fifa&#8217;s final draw in Cape Town in December, Gavin Cowley, managing director of Adidas SA, has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the bi-weekly 2010 lecture series in Green Point last night, Cowley said the ball, like the Confederations Cup soccer ball, had a name, but that it would be kept a secret for now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like the Kopanya soccer ball, which we manufactured for the Confederations Cup this year, the World Cup official soccer ball will also have a name and will be truly South African in colour and design,&#8221; said Cowley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very excited and I wish I could tell all South Africans what design and colours we have selected for the World Cup soccer ball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many might think it&#8217;s ridiculous, but the ball is a very important component of the beautiful game &#8211; without it there is no soccer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, we couldn&#8217;t agree more with that.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, however, the Argus also quotes the man from adidas as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In December, when the official World Cup soccer ball is unveiled, over 700 000 million people will be watching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My, that&#8217;s a lot of folks!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?art_id=vn20090226143948791C364058\">IOL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&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-117","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\/117","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=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}