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Regulation Footballs For Soccer
By John Francis

Footballs used in association football or soccer have a circumference of 27 to 28 inches. It weighs around 410 to 450 grams and is inflated to a pressure of 60 to 10 kPa. Footballs are usually covered with leather. But, today different types of materials are used to cover it. The footballs used in modern day games are stitched from 32 panels of leather or plastic.

Leather and plastic used in football should have waterproof property. It is also stitched from 2 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons. Truncated icosahedron is the name given to the 32 panel. It is quite similar to the polyhedron but is more spherical. The spherical shape is due to the pressure of the air inside the football.
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