To design the most technologically advanced World Cup ball in history, Adidas had to go back to a time when TV transmissions were mostly in black and white, soccer balls were made from heavy ...

Heading a soccer ball is both a fundamental skill and a dynamic way to score a goal, ... Lipton and his colleagues had 222 amateur adult soccer players take web surveys over a nine-month period.

With the 2010 Cup's Jabulani ball ('to celebrate' in isiZulu), Adidas claims it has surpassed its own Teamgeist from 2006 in constructing the roundest and most accurate ball ever played. See how ...