This year’s World Cup is the first to take place on the continent since the United States hosted the tournament in 1994. It ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Major League Soccer unveiled the match ball for the 2026 MLS season, the last of which in the current calendar before the ...

Three of the 12 soccer stadiums where Brazil will host the FIFA World Cup are still under construction. Only 1 in 3 Brazilians thinks the monthlong tournament will be good for their country’s economy.

NEW YORK (Jan. 2, 2026) – adidas and Major League Soccer today unveiled the 2026 MLS Official Match Ball, a bold red, white, and blue design that celebrates the people, pitches, and passion that defin ...

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 ...

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, ...