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By today's standards soccer is a fairly simple game. The game of Soccer or football has a small pamphlet of 50 pages that summarizes the 17 laws of the game. 50 pages may seem like a lot to cover the basic rules of a sport, but the rules of soccer in comparison to many other popular sports and games that have many 100's of pages in their rule books.
Who invented Soccer? That question may not be an easy one to answer since so many cultures in our history liked kicking things, preferably things that could roll, around. By popular belief, it may be that it was the English who invented soccer.
Now, normally soccer balls are made of PVC, leather and other soft materials. In this case, the soccer ball is made of 32 panels of steel reinforced, glass fiber fabric. I also hear that the steel reinforced, glass fiber fabric is available in all sorts of colors, just in case the standard black and white wasn't cool enough.
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