Saturday, December 5, 2009

The Science Behind Jabulani, Adidas's 2010 World Cup Soccer Ball

Jabulani, Deconstructed: Adidas

From Popular Science:

See a video on how this year's latest and greatest piece of soccer engineering comes together.

While the sporting world watched the clock for the high noon announcement of the brackets for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, we were salivating over another four-year tradition: the engineering and innovation that goes into the official World Cup ball. With the 2010 Cup's Jabulani ball (‘to celebrate’ in isiZulu), Adidas claims it has surpassed its own Teamgeist from 2006 in constructing the roundest and most accurate ball ever played. See how it's made inside.

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