soccer ball

soccer ball

Soccer ball in the sunset.
Soccer ball
Zulu and HIS Soccer Ball

A football is a ball used to play one of the various sports known as football. Each code of football uses a different ball, though they all belong to one of two different basic shapes:

  1. a sphere: used in Association football (soccer) and Gaelic football;
  2. a prolate spheroid ('oval-shaped'):
    • either with rounded ends: used in Rugby football and Australian rules football,
    • or with more pointed ends: used in American football and Canadian football.

The precise shape and construction of footballs is typically specified as part of the rules and regulations.

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MORNING READ UPDATE: Collies begin to learn soccer skills (Orange County Register)
Six puppies train to join their parents' team. HUNTINGTON BEACH Soccer Collies, a team of dogs that plays soccer, grew by six Jan. 8 and the pups are beginning to learn to play ball.

Soccer: Red Elephants make lone strike hold up against West Hall (3/7) (AccessNorthGA)
GAINESVILLE -- Gainesville High boys soccer coach Rick Howard says that he spent the first few games of this season trying to find his best line-up, the one that mixes best together.

Roosevelt boys soccer can't repeat rally (The Fresno Bee)
The Roosevelt High boys soccer team's regional title hopes came crashing down within the first 40 minutes of the Division I regional semifinal match.

He's a star in England's soccer cauldron (Philly.com)
Bobby Convey operates in a competitive cauldron as intense as any in American sports, playing in the country where his sport was born. The Northeast Philadelphia native left the William Penn Charter School after his freshman year to pursue a life in soccer, turned professional at 16, and made it to the world's toughest proving ground, the English Premier League.

SOCCER: Ball State fills coaching vacancy (Ball State Daily News)
A coaching search that took almost two months ended Monday as an assistant coach from Virginia Tech was named the head coach of the Ball State University soccer team.