They come out of a quiet street in Melbourne’s east, get kicked about 200 times and retire from the big leagues to be bumped ...

a ball made out of 92 panels: 12 pentagons and 80 hexagons. The Original 92s were crafted out of Italian leather and hand-sewn together. Wheatley calls them the most expensive football on the ...

Asics and Mizuno will stop using kangaroo leather in their football boots as the sports equipment industry’s last major holdouts abandon a material beloved of elite stars such as Pelé, Diego Maradona ...

Leather arrives every week from the ... inserted and the football is laced together by hand. A football’s shape is not actually a ball in the spherical sense of the word, but a prolate spheroid ...