Because the shops don’t fucking sell them, and that makes me sad for some reason.
They’re just on like Temu and shit like that, usually with weirdly small black panels.
I think that design is copyrighted by Adidas. I can find some fakes online but I can’t be sure those aren’t dropshippers from China.
I don’t think Adidas makes them anymore and I don’t think any country that respects copyright can sell similar balls without getting sued. You can get old replicas off of ebay, though.
I really don’t like what copyright leaves us with.
In my opinion these are all kind of secondary to the massive commercialisation of sports. This leads to exclusivity deals for all kinds of classic cultural icons. I know this example demonstrates that it’s been this way for at least fifty years (the Telstar design is from 1974) but I’d wish parties like FIFA would stop selling out this much and at least make the ball designs open enough.
There’s something to be argued for the jacuzzification of this particular football design, so perhaps you can get away with selling these, but I don’t think any ball company is willing to take the cost of the lawsuit even if they win.
Someone ought to invert the colors, stick it in a jokey box, and call it a fair use parody.
It’s the Adidas Telstar style and yeah surprisingly hard to find any with that style. But derbystar sells them it seems. With branding ofc but a brand less one you’ll probably need temu or something like that
Like with most things… I say if you’re going to make it for your own personal use, go for it. As long as you don’t sell it, they can’t do much about it.
Yeah, that’s not the thing.
