Most people know that a traditional soccer ball is black and white and that the black and white panels are in a pattern. You might even know that there are 32 total panels on a traditional soccer ...

This is the shape of the classic soccer ball, originally called the Telstar ball and used in the official FIFA World Cup ...

The Telstar 18, the official Adidas soccer ball of World Cup 2018 looks like a ball from 1970. ... It features a black-and-white design in a pixelated digital design and includes just six panels.

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 ...

Picture a soccer ball and the image that comes to mind is probably a sphere made up of 32 smooth panels – 12 black pentagons and 20 white hexagons. But this conventional ball is oh so passe.