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News: 2010 FIFA World Cup: The Ball

14 years ago in News & Features

The FIFA World Cup fever is getting hotter with fresh news:

The “Jabulani” will be at the very centre of the World Cup. This new ball, which took 3 years to develop, will be the match ball in every game at the World Cup. This means that how it plays will be incredibly important to the fates of the 32 nations competing this month. Jabulani means to celebrate or “rejoice” in Zulu, an African tribal language spoken by around 10 million people, mainly in …


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News: 2010 FIFA World Cup: Players’ Complaints About New Ball Unjustified

14 years ago in News & Features

It’s like clockwork. Adidas creates a new ball specifically for the World Cup. Players get their hands on it. Complaints come flooding in. The latest ball from Adidas is called Jabulani, which means “to celebrate” in isiZulu, but�Italian striker Giampaolo Pazzini thinks he has come up with a more suitable name. “Disaster.” Pazzini was quoted by the Associated Press calling it such, and he is by …


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