A modern homage to the 1970 Telstar, it featured pixelated black graphics referencing Russia’s digital era. Equipped with a ...

March 16, 2005 UPDATED IMAGES AND TECHNICAL INFO The World Cup of soccer is fast approaching and one of the features of the world's most watched sporting tournament is the latest soccer ball from ...

Reporting from Herzogenaurach, Germany — 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, ...

As with every World Cup, at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the players will be using a new ball. The last thing competitors want is for the most important piece of equipment in the most important ...

Following is a transcript of the video. The typical soccer ball looks like this. Black and white with a bunch of these panels. But that's not what the World Cup balls look like. So, what's going on?

As the 2018 World Cup continues in Russia, all eyes will be on one object: the iconic black-and-white soccer ball, or football if you’re somewhere other than the United States. The Adidas Telstar 18 ...

To a casual observer, The World Cup’s new official tournament ball, the Adidas Brazuca, looks roughly identical to previous World Cup balls. But the Brazuca is in fact a distinct departure from the ...

Now that the World Cup is over, it's time for me to tell you that a soccer ball doesn't need to be spherical. With the help of Ivars Peterson in his last Math Trek column, "Bending a Soccer Ball," let ...

Sialkot, Pakistan, has been a worldwide hub of football, or soccer ball, production since the late 1800s. British colonials paid local cobblers to re-create the balls they used at home, and production ...