The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa.
will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation
The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa.
the ball has 11 different colours and that eleven different colours represent the 11 players in each team, the 11 tribes from south africa and the 11 different languaages there are in south africa.
On
December
4th, adidas
and FIFA officially unveiled
the
adidas
“JABULANI”,
the
Official Match Ball for the 2010
FIFA
World
Cup South Africa.
The
“JABULANI”,
which means
“to celebrate” in isiZulu, features a South
African
inspired
design and
radically new technology. The
new
match
ball will be
available
in retail from December 5th
onwards.
The newly developed
“Grip’n’Groove
”
profile
1
provides
the
best
players in
the world with a ball allowing an
exceptionally
stable
flight and
perfect grip under all
conditions.
Comprising
only
eight,
completely new, thermally bonded
3-D
panels,
which
for
the first time are spherically molded, the ball is
perfectly
round and even more accurate than
ever
before.
The name:
The name
1
”JABULANI”
originates
from the
indigenous language
isiZulu
,
one
of
the eleven
official languages of the Republic of
South
Africa,
which
is
spoken by almost 25% of the population. Literally
translated,
“JABULANI”
means “to celebrate”. Football is
a
passion
that unites the world.
The name
of
the new
match ball
appropriately pays tribute to the passionate
football
celebration
international fans will enjoy in South Africa
next
summer.
The design:
Eleven different colors are used in the Adidas
“JABULANI”, the eleventh
Adidas World Cup ball.
These 11 colors
represent the 11 players in every team,