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1930 World Cup Tiento Leather Ball by Leather Head Sports

$250 (about £190) · Leather Head Sports

A hand-stitched, twelve-panel leather replica of the Tiento ball from the very first World Cup final in 1930, made by Leather Head Sports in New Jersey. Each one is cut, stitched and laced by hand from vegetable-tanned hide, which is where the money goes and why no two are identical. It’s genuinely built to be kicked, but let’s be honest: it’s going on a shelf, and it will look magnificent there. The natural pairing for anyone who owns a vintage World Cup poster.

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Uruguay 1930: the first World Cup final, played with a stitched leather ball that looks nothing like today’s thermally-bonded spheres. Leather Head Sports hand-make this twelve-panel replica from genuine leather, and it carries the warmth and imperfection that makes old football objects so covetable.

It sits somewhere between sporting equipment and sculpture, which is exactly where the best football decor lives. Pair it with our vintage World Cup posters for a corner of the room that quietly says everything.

$250 (about £190) · Leather Head Sports

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