If you're a soccer fan, you're familiar with this common sight: A penalty kick is in place, with a "wall" of defenders lined ...

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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 ...

We see it all the time in soccer. A physics-defying, gravity-altering kick that curves mid-air and finds the back of the net. Often, it happens over a defensive wall during a free kick. Perhaps the ...

"I've learned you don't have to be a celebrity or be a certain age to make a difference," says Ethan King One minute, 10-year-old Ethan King was standing alone, kicking his soccer ball around a dusty, ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Growing up, soccer was the first sport I ever played. And despite my love for the game, it refused to love me back. I could ...