For the first-time ever, a soccer ball has only six panels. In 1970, the first Adidas ball went black and white for high visibility for the first World Cup ever televised, but needed 32 panels to ...

It’s out with the old and in with the new as MLS heads into 2012. A new expansion team, a new schedule, a set of new jerseys and now you can add a new official match ball to the list.

Adidas designs a new, distinctive, ball for the World Cup every four years, and each time the ball is heavily scrutinized and critiqued. But the venom surrounding the Jabulani was particularly potent.

PORTLAND, Ore. / New York – Adidas and Major League Soccer on Thursday unveiled the updated adidas PRIME, the official match ball for the 2013 MLS season.

Adidas produced the most high-tech World Cup football ever for Qatar 2022. Now they have released a special ball for the semifinals and final. Adidas reveal new high-tech World Cup ball for ...

The cynic in me, the journalistic side, always wants to meet the unveiling of a new match ball with something along these lines: “Is it round? Does it roll? … Then it’s just another ball.” But then ...

The company has been introducing new World Cup balls ever since: the eight-panel Jabulani ball in 2010 and for the 2014 games—which begin on June 12 in São Paulo, Brazil—the six-panel Brazuca.

Adidas. Textured spikes as part of a soccer cleat’s upper represent the latest technology from Adidas in the brand’s attempt to create better grip on the ball. Dubbed Demonskin, the new upper ...

The first World Cup ball with 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons, now an iconic design, was used in 1970. Factors from stitching to panel shape all have an effect on how soccer balls fly.

D@lY3D Abdelmaksoud. After more than thirty years of making soccer balls for the World Cup, in 2006 Adidas started mixing things up. That year, the standard 32 stitched panels were abandoned for a ...

1. Some of the top European soccer leagues made the switch to the new Nike Maxim Hi-Vis soccer ball this past fall. Now, the MLS (Major League Soccer) is following suit. Earlier this month, adidas ...