The soccer ball - An Ageless Entertainment

It is said that thousands of years, Indians of South America already kicked a ball for elastic pleasure. They used things such as heads, skulls, stitched on the cloth and the bladders of pigs or cows. China has played "Tsu chu" animal skin, where the balls were dribbled through gaps in a net stretched between two poles. The soccer ball only a few thousand years. Ancient Egyptian rituals have similarities with the football, and both the Greeks and Romans also played a game that led to the implementation and kicking a ball.

The more irregular the bladders used as bullets were, the more their behavior is unpredictable. After Charles Goodyear patented vulcanized rubber, he designed the first rubber ball soccer (football). Only during the twentieth century that rubber bladders were began to be used in most of the balls. Lindon, in 1862, has developed one of the first bladders for rubber bullets, probably motivated by the adverse effects of blowing bladders of animals, after his wife died of lung disease.

Football is an air-filled sphere with a radius of 68-70 cm, weight 210-250 g, of leather or other suitable material. Most bullets are sewn with 32 panels of water proof leather or plastic and the colors are usually black and white. Over the years, the balls are lighter. Older balls were usually stitched from 18 oblong panels with leather. The problem is that these balls are very heavy. Although the last World Cup in 2006, the ball is stitched with 14 panels and the color is not usual in black and white. Reduce the amount of panels used in a more accurate shot with the ball will be, because the deduction of the amount of panels is more perfect circumference.

The black and white colors on the football has been defined so that it can be seen better in black and white televisions, but in cases such as playing in the snow, soccer balls have different colors such as yellow or orange. The ball used in the final of the 2006 World Cup is gold and black with white details. Some brands of footballs are developing new technologies, such as the use of foam under the composition of the ball, or even cycles, so that the goalkeepers to determine the rotation of the ball .

Today, there are many brands of soccer balls, including the famous, such as Adidas, Nike, tabs, etc. About 80% of soccer balls made in Pakistan, and 75% have been made in the city of Sialkot.

As football is the most popular sport in the world to find a soccer ball anywhere on the planet. It does not matter if it is called football, soccer, Fußball, Football or Linda will always be a number of footballs is around kicking, even in countries were the sport n ' is not as popular in Brazil, Argentina, England, Germany or ". Soccer balls are still used in peace campaigns, with games with members of the team of Palestine and Israel, playing side by side in the same team united by the same football.