Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, largely due to the little equipment needed to play it. You basically just need a ball and two goals. Soccer balls used by professional players today are very advanced, from having lazer-shaped panels to being almost areodynamicaly perfect. Everything on a soccer ball has a purpose. The multicolored panels on the ball are so that when a ball is kicked, a goalkeeper can read and predict the serve. The ball has very few panels so that when air flows around it, it does not pull at the ball and change its trajectory. This summer at the FIFA World Cup in Brasil, the ball being used is called the

Brazuca, and it is one of the most asdvanced balls in the game.

 

A soccer ball is in the shape of a sphere, so if you cut athe ball down it's equator, you will get a perfect circle.