Let’s get to know the football oscar better: The Golden Ball
The origins of the Golden Ball i am absolutely Italianeven if it is a creation fromParisian goldsmith Mellerio, one of the most famous of Paris. The Maison, in fact, has existed for more than five hundred years, and the Mellerio are people who come from Ossola Valley. They left the Piedmont in 1515 and a hundred years later the descendants of the family gave birth to the Maison de Joaillerie Mellerio.
It is undoubtedly an excellence that has, among its tasks, also that of make the trophy of the tournament Roland Garros tennis. The Golden Ball, as we know it today, was born in 2003, but before it was in a different guise. Indeed on each hex were engraved there two small lines, then eliminate due to legal problems with a German sports company, for plagiarism. Today those lines have disappeared from the sphere. The golden name is due exclusively to the color of the award, because in reality the material of which the famous is composed Flask is brassthey are indeed due hemisphere welded together, to obtain the famous ball.
The most critical phase, however, comes only at the moment of installation on the pedestal, in pyrite crystal, of the product just welded. This takes well 15 hours of work, where you have to fill a hole in the ball and then with powder that fixes the ball to its pedestal. But first of all the trophy passes through a golden bath. At this point the famous hexagons of the “old style” balls and engraved the words: “French football” with the graphics of the newspaper you care the prize. The forbidden dream of all footballers has small sizemeasure in fact 31cm tall, 23 wide and as many of depth.
What value does the Golden Ball have in a nutshell? On balance, its value is around About 13 thousand euros, keeping in mind that for make it happen 6 months and about 100 hours of work. Then it’s not finished yet, as the last touch takes place there the very evening of the assignment, a goldsmith engraves the name of the winner to whom it was awarded and who if so take home….
Karim Benzema, to rate a name …