Three of the 12 soccer stadiums where Brazil will host the FIFA World Cup are still under construction. Only 1 in 3 Brazilians thinks the monthlong tournament will be good for their country’s economy.

RIO DE JANEIRO – It's gotta be the ball. The number and quality of goals in this year's World Cup is remarkable bordering on incredible, and there have been plenty of theories as to why. The simplest ...

Forget any notion of a 32-paneled soccer ball, true stitching or black-and-white design. The Brazuca, the official adidas-made match ball for World Cup 2014, engineers roundness well beyond tradition.

With the World Cup celebrations just on the horizon, adidas are sending brazuca, the official ball of the tournament, on a worldwide trip. This isn’t any old brazuca ball, however. This one looks back ...

Science experts predict it will roll and travel through the air more consistently A poor workman often blames his tools, and every four years the official World Cup football seems to provide the ...

Soccer fans that remember the buildup to the 2010 World Cup will remember the complaints from professional footballers that were set to compete in the tournament about all of the issues with the ...

Every four years, soccer fans around the world gather to watch the FIFA World Cup. And every FIFA World Cup finals uses a new state-of-the-art soccer ball from Adidas. For the 2014 World Cup finals in ...

Every year the newest version of the World Cup soccer ball causes a stir. Now physicists have put those balls to the test, to see just how well they fly. Will this change in design make a difference ...

YES, we just interviewed a ball. And as it turns out, the official ball of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil has a well-rounded story to tell. Here’s how it rolls. The star in question does, however, ...

It's one of the stars of the World Cup - the paintbrush with which the world's greatest footballing maestros must create their art. But is it up to the task? The Brazuca, the official ball of Brazil ...