Given its significance, the history of the soccer ball has too often been overlooked. With that in mind, allow bundesliga.com to trumpet the fascinating backstory of the famous leather sphere in ...

Its rich history and vibrant culture span continents ... Charles Goodyear is credited with inventing the soccer ball. He ...

Crucially, carrying the ball with the hands was outlawed: association football (soccer) and rugby became two separate entities. Football continued to undergo rapid development into the 1900s ...

There’s no sport that comes close to the popularity and history of soccer. It’s a simple game to ... with only the opposing goalkeeper allowed to attempt to stop the ball. Soccer fields, or ‘pitches’ ...

Buy the book. 9. The Ball Is Round: A Global History Of Soccer by David Goldblatt. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but ...

Step inside the factory to see how soccer balls are made in large quantities. Watch each part of the process that turns simple materials into game-ready balls!

let's take a look at how MLS Cup match balls have looked every year since 1996. If you're interested in another trip down MLS Cup memory lane, too, check out our visual history of every Cup field ...

"The Ball Is Round" by David Goldblatt Is this the "Infinite Jest" of soccer books? Weighing in at 992 pages, it’s hefty, for sure, but a must-read for anyone who wants to delve into the history ...

The latest National Women's Soccer League expansion ... that jokingly tweaked the city’s history of famous sports teams by complaining it has “too many balls”—which was slammed as male ...

Loyola Blakefield boys soccer defeated Curley, 2-0, to win its second consecutive MIAA A championship Sunday at UMBC Stadium.

For as dominant as Northwestern Lehigh’s girls soccer program has been for the better part of the last decade, a berth in the ...

Ashley Brown has scored more goals than any other player in the history of Dock Mennonite girls soccer. Still, the sophomore ...