World Cup Trivia
What is the difference between a regular soccer ball and the 2006 World Cup soccer ball?
Being a part of the world and all feel a bit strange not mentioning The World Cup, which starts today - now even!
Yet I have little to add on the teams, the matches etc, other than knowing people going to the odd game, and wanting to see a country win that a friend/family member lives in (pretty much every country other than some of the African ones will guaranteee this)…
But then I realised, I COULD say something. Looking for a soccer ball image I found:
"A regular soccer ball is a truncated iscahedron" ie it has 32 faces contains 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons". (thanks)
HOWEVER the official ball of the 2006 World Cup is the Adidas TeamGeist [german for team spirit]. It only has 14 curved panels.
Not sure why they felt the need for this innovation but now you too can sound like a soccer expert (unless everyone knows this but me??)
And with that, Happy World Cup-watching, celebrating, playing and so forth…
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June 15th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Funny to see this again. Years back I saw this for the first time. My dad used to review maps for a Dutch daily. One day we had two visitors with a flat globe and a football. Apperently this football is not round, the presure on the inner ball of the hexagons and pentagons are different, and therefore it includes a chance factor in the game. If the football player hits the ball at one of the two ends the ball will go faster than when it is hit on the other.
Those two visitors came to my dad had improved the geometric structure of the ball and created a new ball and a globe. This ball put equal pressure on all the sides of the globe. Unfortunately, I don’t know what happened to it.
November 20th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
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