Since about 1970, soccer balls have been stitched or glued together from 32 patches of material—12 of them five-sided and 20 of them six-sided. These patches are arranged so that each pentagon is ...

Once upon a time, soccer balls (or footballs, depending on where you hail from) were made using inflated pig bladders that were wrapped in leather. The ancient Chinese game cuju was an early form of ...

The 2018 World Cup ball from Adidas has aesthetic ties to 1970 but technology fit for the modern game. As the World Cup game ball has evolved over the decades, both in terms of construction and ...

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In the sporting world, computers are used to analyze everything from a golf swing to how fast a tennis ball was served. Tech is being used in the World Cup to determine if a ball actually went past ...

Watching a top player take a free kick is one of the most compelling moments in soccer. In just a split second after being kicked by the player, the ball takes flight, moving towards a direction that ...

It's that World Cup time of the year—so that means it's also time to talk about soccer physics. What about the impossible kick? The "impossible" kick has a ball leave the ground and then take a curved ...

One thing about soccer that makes it an enjoyable game for just about any participant is that the round soccer ball is fairly predictable in the way it behaves when it’s kicked, passed, headed, thrown ...