The history of soccer balls starting from 1963 when Adidas first thought it would be a good idea to make them and came up with something that looked like this… It was the first ball used in the World Cup that had 32 black and white panels.It was called “The TELSTAR ” and was more visible on black and white televisions – (possibly because more people had black and white TV’s than colour TV’s in those days).More such fascinating facts and intriguing trivia here…