Soccerball Study

Surface Soccerball Study - Presented for a workshop at CMR College, Hyderabad. Soccerball Most modern footballs are stitched from 32 panels of waterproofed leather or plastic. 12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons. The 32-panel configuration is the spherical polyhedron corresponding to the truncated icosahedron; it is spherical because the faces bulge from the pressure of the air inside. The first 32-panel ball was marketed by Select in the 1950s in Denmark. This configuration became common throughout Continental Europe in the 1960s, and was publicised worldwide by the Adidas Telstar, the official ball of the 1970 World Cup.