For its recent “My Football Kit” project, Japanese design firm nendo has designed a modular soccer ball comprised of 54 interlocking pieces which aims to be more durable and portable than its ...

For now, it can track a ball on a football field within about two feet of its actual location. For the system to be useful to umpires and game-watchers, it needs to be accurate within about half a ...

But while a $12 soccer ball doesn’t sound very expensive to those of us in the United States, for much of the developing world, it is—costing more than a family’s monthly income.

Players may not head the ball as much as they used to, ... “football” and “soccer” were largely interchangeable in England until some vague point in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s.