Following several trials with the official ball from the South Africa World Cup, the US Aeronautics and Space Agency, NASA, confirmed the famous ‘Jabulani’, seriously criticized by players and goal ...

Other manufacturers may produce colorful balls for next month’s FIFA World Cup, but there’s only one official ball, and for the 11th year, Adidas earned the right to field its version of what a ...

Although Jabulani’s maker, Adidas, promised more goals than normal, there have been just 20 back-of-the-net opportunities in the first 12 games, compared to 28 in Euro 2008, and 30 in the 2006 World ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — FIFA acknowledges there might be something wrong with the Jabulani World Cup ball, but won't act on any problems until after the tournament. Many players have likened the Jabulani ...

An explanation of why the Jabulani World Cup ball moved differently to a standard football.

The Jabulani football—a term that can send chills down your spine despite the fact that we are four years removed from its monstrosities. FIFA engineer and manufacture a new "World Cup ball" every ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Professor Derek Leinweber has been studying soccer balls. He’s interested in the physics behind them, and is particularly intrigued by the design of the official ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South ...

Goalkeepers can expect to find their task a little harder in South Africa but an increased difficulty in maintaining clean sheets will be down to playing at high altitude rather than Adidas's ...

The Uruguay legend wrote his name into World Cup history by mastering the quirks of an adidas ball that Luis Fabiano had labelled "very weird". The first World Cup to ever take place in Africa was ...