It’s a tough call, but Adidas’ new match ball just might beat out the Vuvuzuela horns as the most polarizing thing on South Africa’s World Cup pitch. The Jabulani ball — translated as “Celebration” — has been criticized for its unpredictable movement, called cheap and been implicated in botched plays. The new ball is heat molded rather than hand stitched, which makes it feel a little more like a toy ball and makes it fly a little less true.
This World Cup really needs Cristiano Ronaldo to have a good tournament. Lionel Messi, Kaka, Luis Fabiano David Villa and Wayne Rooney, are all excellent players, but there is no player on the planet quite like Ronaldo.
This week, The Sports Commentary decided to continue our conversation with Dr. Don Sandusky, Founder and CEO of Primo Sport, Inc., who gave us some interesting insights from a manufacturer’s perspective in Tuesday’s post about the World Cup ball controversy. Sandusky is a Ph.D. Engineer who cut his teeth in the R&D labs at NASA, then hired-on with DuPont.
In the wake of Sunday’s tie against New Zealand that stunned my beloved Italians, I thought it was high time I started doing what everyone else is doing – blaming the ball.
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