FIFA Basic and NFHS approvals validate Futstrikers’ 2026 Tekno24 and Sonic24 match balls ahead of Q1 release and national scale-up. People underestimate what it takes to earn these marks. This isn’t a ...

"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, ...

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 ...

Here at the Strategist, we like to think of ourselves as crazy (in the good way) about the stuff we buy, but as much as we’d like to, we can’t try everything. Which is why we have People’s Choice, in ...

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A Soccket is only one ounce heavier than a standard-issue soccer ball and generates three hours of power after one hour of play. Uncharted Play While visiting her cousins in Nigeria, Jessica Matthews ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The soccer ball that Vladimir Putin gave President Donald Trump may have had a bug after all. Though it's not what you're thinking. Adidas says that particular ball is embedded with a microchip that ...