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Article: A quest for perfection for the most basic thing: A ball

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June 26, 2006
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Alice Rawsthorn
International Herald Tribune
06-26-2006
Things did not bode well. The German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann complained it was ''unpredictable.'' His counterpart from England's team, Paul Robinson, dismissed it as ''goalkeeper unfriendly.'' Brazil's strikers found it so tricky that they scheduled extra training sessions. Even before the World Cup had started, players were voicing concerns about the official ball, Adidas's multimillion dollar +Teamgeist.Burdened by a pompous name (the German word for team spirit) with a silly + as a prefix and Adidas's lofty claims that it was the smoothest, roundest and most accurate soccer ball ever, the +Teamgeist seemed set to become the joke of ...

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