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 ...

Every four years there’s a new ball for the World Cup—and every four years players are unhappy with it. Maybe it’s too light and has too much lift, like the 2002 Fevernova.

The new World Cup ball carries the name Jabulani, which is Zulu for “to celebrate.” The soccer players who are using it have another name for it: disaster. This wonder of technology that took ...

Ever since Adidas introduced the Teamgeist for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, it has felt like it has tried to outdo itself and create a ball that is wilder and more unpredictable than the last ...

The new World Cup ball comes from historic stock: the original Telstar was the first ball to use the now-familiar truncasted icosahedrom — 12 black pentagonal panels and 20 white ones.

This year's official ball, the Conext 19, has practically the same panel design as the Telstar 18, which was the official ball in last year's Men's World Cup in Russia.The graphic design is ...

For every World Cup, there's a custom official ball. But how does the Telstar 18 actually stack up? To find out, scientists stuck it in a wind tunnel with a bunch of sensors.

Adidas’ 2002 World Cup soccer ball, the Fevernova, was the subject of much wailing because advanced technology allowed it to be much lighter than the balls players were used to training with.

Twelve cameras positioned inside the World Cup stadiums will track the "Al Rihla" – adidas’ official match ball for Qatar 2022 – and up to 29 data points of each individual player’s limbs ...

For every World Cup, there's a custom official ball. But how does the Telstar 18 actually stack up? To find out, scientists stuck it in a wind tunnel with a bunch of sensors.