The FIFA Football World Cup is using the Adidas Teamgeist - it has only 14 sewn panels making it smoother and supposedly tougher on goal keepers. It is also nearly completely waterproof due to a thermal bonding technology. Of course, the 2002 ball, the Adidas Fevernova was called then the most 'accurate".
One innovation which did not make it into the 2006 ball - a chip to alert referees when it crosses the goal-line. Oh well, gives us continued reason to yell at the refs!
Our UFO has landed quietly last night in a densely populated coordinate at a region humans refer to as "Germany." This particular congregation was generating so much noise we were compelled to study the anomaly.
As we approached the boiling source of haphazard frequencies, our superb training took over. We were well-trained to investigate any unusual source and level of human commotion and report immediately back to our ZX-879 headquarters. Turning on our invisibility shield helped us get really close to the subject of examination without being detected.
As we reached the egg shaped concrete container filled with 100,000 or so human subjects, the noise level rose to such unimaginable heights that we had to shut down our frequency analyzers for fear of damaging their sensitive circuitry.
When we cleared the top of the concrete structure we were blinded with thousands of light-emitting radiation sources.
Then we saw them -- 22 voluntary humans darting back and forth in alternating sequences of random and seemingly-goal-oriented sprints. We have checked our central computer to decipher the modal characteristic of such kinetic outbursts and we were advised to locate the focal source of coordinated agitation.
Posted by: soccer | March 04, 2007 at 02:38 PM