Adidas Nativo
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The Adidas Nativo is a family and brand of association football balls. Used as official match balls of Major League Soccer and MLS All-Star Game, the Nativo balls have had different numbers in their names applied to them to distinguish them in their construction.[1]
Before the adoption of the brand, as official match balls of MLS were used variants of Adidas Teamgeist (2006–2009) and of Adidas Jabulani (2010–2011), while between 2012 and 2014 were used the balls of the line Adidas Prime.
From 2015 to 2017 the line of Nativo balls adopted the technology developed with Adidas Brazuca, already used for the last balls of Adidas Prime's line. The first version, Adidas Nativo 1, used a blue and red template (using the colors of US and Canada flags) with the same shape of Adidas Conext 15 balls.[2][3] For the international day for the fight against breast cancer the MLS used a variant with a pink decoration.[4] Adidas Nativo 2 showed again a blue and red decoration, but it adopted the same template as the balls that replaced the line started with Brazuca, which was first used for Adidas Beau Jeu.[5][6] For the international day for the fight against breast cancer the MLS used a variant with a pink decoration,[7][8] while another variant was used as official match ball of 2016 MLS All-Star Game.[9] Adidas Nativo 3 adopted the same template as the balls that replaced the line of Adidas Conext 15, which was first used for Adidas Krasava, and showed the flags of Canada and United States.[10][11] A variant was used as official match ball of 2017 MLS All-Star Game.[12]
