Particularly concerning the soccer ball, the rubber vulcanization inventor, Charles Goodyear, made and designed the first mass produced soccer footballs in the middle 19th century. Over the years rules were put in place about the size and weight for a modern ball plus the covering and design of a modern soccer ball that could be [...]
Jabulani Ball Jabulani means to celebrate in Zulu, one of the 11 languages of South Africa, and the design of the Jabulani has 11 colors to honor those 11 communities and 11 languages of South Africa, and the 11 players on a team. Jabulani built with 8 new thermally bonded, spherically shaped, and 3 D [...]
The whole world can’t wait for the 2010 Soccer World Cup to begin. After a lot of discussion, bidding and finally votation, South Africa is the selected venue for the 2010 World cup. A lot is in stall on the soccer wall calendar 2010 with the first teams to compete being the host city-South Africa [...]
Marcelo Lippi’s current Italian squad has been criticised by several soccer pundits as being too old. The likes of Gianluigi Buffon (32), Fabio Cannavaro (36), Gennaro Gattuso (32), Gianluca Zambrotta (33), Andrea Pirlo (31), Mauro Camoranesi (33), Antonio Di Natale (32) and Vincenzo Iaquinta (30) are all certainly unlikely to be around when the next [...]
Jabulani Ball Jabulani means to celebrate in Zulu, one of the 11 languages of South Africa, and the design of the Jabulani has 11 colors to honor those 11 communities and 11 languages of South Africa, and the 11 players on a team. Jabulani built with 8 new thermally bonded, spherically shaped, and 3 D [...]
