Getting ready for what is set to be a big season, adidas has revealed the official match ball for the 2025 Major League Soccer campaign, with a design that harks back to the first-ever MLS match ball.

Following is a transcript of the video. The typical soccer ball looks like this. Black and white with a bunch of these panels. But that's not what the World Cup balls look like. So, what's going on?

A single soccer ball was used for all 306 Bundesliga matches in the 1979/80 campaign, but the idea of using a universal ball indefinitely was only agreed upon for the start of the 2010/11 season ...

Most of the world's soccer balls — nearly 70% — are made in one small city in Northern Pakistan. Soccer ball production is a major source of income in the city of Sialkot, with at least 1,000 ...

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