The Official Match Ball of the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay: T-MODEL

Description

Name of the ball:
T-Model
Event when such ball was used:
1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay
Size:
5
Material:
High quality cow leather
Condition:
Brand new
Panel structure:
11 panels with leather laces (five rows like the original 1930 World Cup ball kept in the National Football Museum in England)
Text on the ball:
There was no printed text on the ball in the 1930 World Cup
Type of the ball:
This ball comes from the pre-adidas historical match ball set, it is the exact reproduction of the original T-Model balls as used at the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay
Description of the ball:
This ball on sale is the famous T-model which is the most well known pre-adidas World Cup ball of all time. Uruguay played the majority of its matches with such T-model balls in the 1930 World Cup until they faced Argentina in the final match. Since Argentina also wanted to play this match with their own ball (which was a regular 12 panel ball), they played the first half of the match with the Argentinean ball and the second half with the Uruguayian ball. The role of the balls became crucial since Argentina won the first half 2-1 but Uruguay came back into the game and finally won it with their T-model 4-2 and became the first World Champions.