Last update 24 December, 2023 by Alberto Llopis
If you are not a kid of today and you were one of those who played soccer in the street, in any field of sand or square, you will know the Tragedies, the ball that marked your childhood and possibly some part of your body. And it was a real cannonball that if sand was wet and picked, and it became a terrible weapon. A ball that was capable of warming you up even if you were playing football in Turkmenistan or in Siberia.
Mikasa was and is, the hardest ball in history
A stone, weighing 3 times more than a normal ball of his time and 40 times more than today. Texture so hard that if you happened to give head, you lost 3456 blow neurons, almost nothing. Punterazos and accumulated even when uninflated, He remained a rock.
Mikasa tanned you, It would be necessary to see some kid of those who play today in grassroots football categories and even some professional, play with him, with the football boots before and in the potato fields where football was played until a decade ago.
The most resistant ball in history continues to sell
You are right, even though Mikasa was the symbol of amateur football ground and mud of 70, 80 it is included 90, is that still manufacturing and selling. According to data that gives the brand itself, apparently they sold some 300.000 per year.
And you, ever you played with one of them? you remember?, Did you live that of “It hurts more than a pitch of a Mikasa”?, Did you give any punterazo of the time or stayed with him shocked and marked on the forehead after clearing a play? Tell us more about your experience with the legendary tougher ball amateur football history.