Adidas, Telstar, and the classic soccer ball

29:38Cup and it was the first time that Adidas actually manufactured the official ball. Um Adidas has made the official balls ever since. What he did was use geometric shapes. He was a big fan of using like, you know, the Epcot like ball. That Epcot Center that that's it looks a lot like that. Um so, the Fuller's ball that Buckminster fullerene it's the classic ball that we know from the Pelé 1970 World Cup. This pattern is now so iconic, right? It's got the black pentagons and I think that's photo 13. Black pentagons, white hexagons. 20 white hexagons for 12 black pentagons. Now, this is like the soccer ball.

30:19>> Yeah. If you grew up playing at any point in time prior to like the modern era, this is everything you played with. >> Yeah. And because it's got so many panels, what you're trying to do is create a shape from that fabric that is a sphere, right? That's the challenge. And now this ball is so spherical that now players can start curving their kicks intentionally. they can allow the shape to have a predictable path through the air. How does that soccer ball actually work