Even though the lace-less construction had been invented at the beginning of the thirties, it took more than a decade for lace-less balls appearing at the FIFA World Cup. The 1950 Superball consisted of 12 identical panels but the edges of these panels were more curved than before. The Superball was a brown hand sewn ball, and FIFA allowed the manufacturer to print logos and text on the ball. As we can see in the case of the balls from 1954 (Switzerland), 1958 (Sweden) and 1966 (England) World Cup balls, this was an exception since these balls had to be free from branding — regardless of that the manufacturers put branded balls on the general market for sale at the same time. However, for the 1962 ball (Chile, between the 1958 and 1966 World Cups) they allowed print and text on the Crack ball used in the Chile World Cup.
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