Modular Football Trophy Honoring Collective Achievement Receives Platinum A' Design Award Recognition

COMO, CO, ITALY, August 27, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The A' Design Awards has announced Fifpro World 11 by xCruza as a Platinum winner in the Awards, Prize and Competitions Design category. This recognition places the football trophy among works acknowledged for notable creativity and technical accomplishment within the accolade design field. The A' Design Award is a highly respected, internationally juried competition that evaluates entries through a rigorous, criteria based process. For xCruza, a Buenos Aires based industrial design studio, the distinction affirms a thoughtful approach to translating cultural meaning into a functional object. The award also highlights the relevance of the design to professional football and the broader community it serves.

The Platinum A' Design Award recognition holds meaning beyond the studio, signaling to the accolade industry how trophies can express shared values rather than individual triumph alone. Fifpro World 11 responds to a growing interest in awards that emphasize inclusion, camaraderie, and collective experience. By reimagining the conventional single trophy as a modular system, the design aligns with practices that prioritize meaningful interaction and lasting identity. For stakeholders, the work offers a practical and scalable model received by world class footballers. The result strengthens both the award experience and its recognizable identity.

Built on the Argentine concept of Abrazo de Gol, the goal embrace, Fifpro World 11 is made from solid aluminum and consists of eleven individual pieces that assemble into a single cup. This duality allows the trophy to function in two states, the unified cup and a hand held piece for each selected footballer. A streamlined morphology of curve and counter curve gives the form visual movement in both configurations. Each statuette is machined on a five axis CNC, then polished through multiple stages to achieve a satin interior and a mirror finish exterior. Laser engraving of the player name and the year completes each piece, combining high precision technology with an artisanal finish.

This Platinum A' Design Award recognition may inform future directions for xCruza, encouraging continued exploration of designs that merge cultural narrative with industrial feasibility. The achievement reinforces the studio's commitment to creating scalable products and coherent product identities grounded in a clear Argentine identity. It also serves as motivation for the team to pursue further innovation in objects that carry symbolic and emotional resonance. The win demonstrates how a meaningful concept can be realized through disciplined development and careful attention to manufacturing constraints.

Project Members
Fifpro World 11 was designed by the xCruza Studio team, led by Carlos Genoud and Victoria Rique, who guided the concept and design direction. Mariel Paz and Ignacio Bualo contributed to the development of the modular system, form refinement, and production oriented detailing. Together the team translated the Abrazo de Gol concept into a manufacturable and consistent trophy.

Interested parties may learn more about the award winning design, its features, and the team behind it at the dedicated page provided by the A' Design Awards. The page offers further details about the concept, research, and production methods of Fifpro World 11.
https://competition.adesignaward.com/ada-winner-design.php?ID=180728

About Fifpro
Fifpro is the global organization representing professional footballers, acting on behalf of more than 70,000 players worldwide. As an organization, it promotes and protects their rights, well-being, and working conditions, and works with governing bodies, leagues, and other stakeholders to ensure that the voices of all players are included. Fifpro also conducts research and provides support and collective action on issues such as workload, health, equality, and professional development. Since 2005, it has organized the annual World 11 award, in which professional footballers vote for the best eleven of the season, under the motto, By the players, for the players.

About xCruza
xCruza is a Buenos Aires based industrial design studio led by Victoria Rique and Carlos Genoud since 2004, creating scalable products and product identities recognized with international awards and exhibitions. The studio works as a strategic partner for organizations seeking to turn ideas into real, consistent, and scalable products, understanding design as a meeting point where society, culture, technology, and the environment converge. Its practice focuses on everyday products and industrial manufacturing, combining strategy, product design, and identity implementation to build coherent product families that remain recognizable over time. xCruza supports projects from early framing and criteria definition through detailed development and launch, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, design, research, marketing, and communication. This end to end approach aligns design intent with technical feasibility, considering materials, processes, tolerances, and quality control from the start.

About the Platinum A' Design Award Recognition
The Platinum A' Design Award is the highest accolade granted by the A' Design Awards, given to designs that demonstrate notable innovation and meaningful societal contribution. Recognized through a rigorous evaluation process, Platinum designs reflect strong technical properties, considered artistic skill, and distinctive creative qualities. In the Awards, Prize and Competitions Design category, entries are assessed against criteria including innovation excellence, design originality, aesthetic appeal, functionality efficiency, ergonomic comfort, material sustainability, production feasibility, market potential, social impact, environmental consciousness, cultural sensitivity, and inclusive design. Further criteria encompass technological advancement, commercial viability, user experience, safety considerations, durability and longevity, brand alignment, cost effectiveness, and future growth potential. This designation acknowledges works that advance the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology while contributing positively to quality of life.

About A' Design Award
The A' Award, Trophy, Prize and Competition Design Award is a highly esteemed accolade open to participants across the design industry, including established brands, design agencies, companies, and individual designers. Entries are blind peer reviewed and evaluated against pre-established criteria by a world class jury panel comprising design professionals, accolade industry experts, journalists, academics, and designers. The ultimate aim of the A' Design Award is to recognize and promote superior products and projects that advance and benefit society, helping to create a better world through the power of good design. Driven by this philanthropic mission, the competition motivates designers and brands to develop outstanding work and showcases these achievements on an international stage. Organized since 2008 and now in its 18th year, the A' Design Award is an international, juried competition held across all industries and open to entries from all countries; interested parties may learn more, explore jury members, view past laureates, and take part at https://designaccolades.net

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