Photo of the official match-ball for FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan 2002

FIFA World Cup 2002 South Korea/Japan

The Fevernova was a transition ball between the classic and the modern World Cup balls. Even though it kept its 32 panel structure, it no longer consisted of the famous Tango panels. Moreover, it was the very last hand sewn World Cup ball. It had gone through a lot of improvements related to its material, since it consisted of more layers than its predecessors, but despite this, this ball became even more thin. This ball has both the hexagon patterns as well as the air bubbles as seen in case of the Tricolore four years earlier. The name of the ball refers to the football fever in Asia.

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