As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity’s favorite truncated ...

Alyssa Cronin documented her dad, known online as Kickball Dad, trying to buy the ball for months ...

All children need to play. No matter how difficult the circumstances, the pleasure of the beautiful game is universal.

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"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, ...

The 2018 World Cup ball from Adidas has aesthetic ties to 1970 but technology fit for the modern game. As the World Cup game ball has evolved over the decades, both in terms of construction and ...

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 ...

Some workouts require fitness equipment you probably don't have—but almost everyone has a soccer ball kicking around in the back of their closet. That's all you need for this total-body workout, and ...