Adidas gives us a look at all the world cup footballs used from 1970 to 2014.
A look at the video reveals that colour first sneaked into the world cup footballs in the 1998 world cup.The ball has a dash of blue on it in that world cup.It was all black and white before that.
The world cup balls got progressively flashier after that one and the latest one – the brazuca- is the most brilliantly coloured one of them all.