Its name means "party" or "celebrate" in the Bantu language Zulu language, one of the eleven official South Africa, speaking nearly 25 percent of the population. It is made in eleven colors and has an exact precision roundness
Adidas and FIFA, with David Beckham as master of ceremonies, presented in Cape Town the next World Cup official ball of South Africa, Jabulani, with a design inspired by the African style, from this Saturday will be on sale worldwide.
Its name comes from the Bantu language Zulu language, one of the eleven official South Africa, speaking nearly 25 percent of the population, which means "party" or "celebrate".
The ball is made of eleven colors representing each of the 11 players from each team, all 11 official languages of South Africa and the 11 tribes of the country with the greatest ethnic diversity of the entire African continent.
With only eight novel 3D panels, heat-sealed first spherically shaped, the ball also has a roundness of exact precision. Based on the color outside the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, particular elements of the design will also bring out the richness of color that can boast of South Africa.
Several players have already tasted. "The ball does exactly what I want to do," Michael Ballack sentence. "With him always throw the exact point, "says Frank Lampard." For me the most important is contact with the ball and this ball is great, "says Kaka, while Petr Cech compared to" a projectile ".