Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how a professional soccer ball is made in in advanced factory, from the ...

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Miles from the main roads, in rural Africa, soccer balls bounce unevenly. Playing fields are arid, lush, weedy, sandy ...

A single soccer ball was used for all 306 Bundesliga matches in the 1979/80 campaign, but the idea of using a universal ball indefinitely was only agreed upon for the start of the 2010/11 season ...