TOKYO (Reuters) – Knowledge from the ninja, Japan’s secretive feudal spies and assassins, is the secret behind the new official ball for the upcoming World Cup, one Japanese researcher has said.

A team of outside researchers has been studying how Adidas’s redesigned soccer ball cuts through the air. Much is new about ...

By John Eric Goff, University of Puget Sound Every four years, the men’s World Cup delivers some certainties. The pitch ...

Taking inspiration from World Cup match balls and other facets of the beautiful game, Spencer Berry has mashed up the worlds ...

Forget any notion of a 32-paneled soccer ball, true stitching or black-and-white design. The Brazuca, the official adidas-made match ball for World Cup 2014, engineers roundness well beyond tradition.

Three of the 12 soccer stadiums where Brazil will host the FIFA World Cup are still under construction. Only 1 in 3 Brazilians thinks the monthlong tournament will be good for their country’s economy.

A ball is just a ball, right? Something round, something stitched together. Just a ball. Well, not when the world watches it slice through the air during the World Cup and the company making it calls ...

Every four years, FIFA introduces a new official World Cup ball. A ton of science goes into the process -- and whether the players like it comes down to physics. Designed by Adidas, the ball itself is ...

Ever wonder about the process by which adidas manufactures millions upon millions of brand new soccer balls before every World Cup? Well, wonder no longer, because the above video from adidas takes ...

When Brazil and Croatia kick off the first game of the 2014 World Cup they will use the Adidas ‘Brazuca’, the official ball of the 2014 World Cup. The name Brazuca comes from a fan poll in Brazil that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – It's gotta be the ball. The number and quality of goals in this year's World Cup is remarkable bordering on incredible, and there have been plenty of theories as to why. The simplest ...