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unusual facts about soccer ball



AERCam Sprint

The sphere, which looks like an oversized soccer ball, was released by Mission Specialist Winston E. Scott during the STS-87 spacewalk and flew freely in the forward cargo bay for about 30 minutes.

Euler characteristic

It is common to construct soccer balls by stitching together pentagonal and hexagonal pieces, with three pieces meeting at each vertex (see for example the Adidas Telstar).

Olli

Hein Mevissen and Diederiekje Bok from design company John Doe designed Olli from the basic shape of a soccer ball.


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Charleston Battery

The club badge is a classic shield in yellow and black featuring a pair of crossed artillery cannons (alluding to the city of Charleston's part in the American Civil War and American Revolution) above a depiction of a traditional-style soccer ball.

Fullerene chemistry

Fullerene or C60 is soccer-ball-shaped or Ih with 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons.

Lukasrand Tower

For a time (September 2009 to prior to August 2012), the tower also sported a 24 metre, eight storey high, fibreglass soccer ball, for the 2010 World Cup.

Racing for Holland

Shortly before the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Racing For Holland liveried their cars for the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans in the motif of a soccer ball, having received support from Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruijff.

Sport Club Santa Maria

Its logo represents a shield with a red ling with another line and its abbreviated form on top, it features the Atlantic Ocean on the bottom coloured from sky blue to navy blue with a soccer ball and a boat in the middle overlooking its setting sun which is colored along with the setting evening skies of yellow, light orange, orange and red.

Wurzelpeter

Wurzel toys are available from the distributor; the most popular one features Wurzel (or Peter) with his foot on a soccer ball, not dissimilar to an old-fashioned forward like Rodney Marsh in his QPR heydey.