Kyle Fawcett's List: Summeries

• Cape Town, South Africa
• December 4, 2009
• Jabulani means "celebrate" in Zulu
• also used as the match ball of 2009 FIFA Club World Cup
• Adidas Jabulani Angola, is in use as the match ball of the 2010 African Cup of Nations
• eight thermally-bonded, three-dimensional panels
• spherically-moulded
• 'GripnGroove'^[1] that is intended to improve the ball's aerodynamics
• 11 official languages of South Africa
• Eleven different colours are used
• white background
• 11 players in a football team
• four triangular design elements
• coloured to represent the yellow, red and black of the host nation's flag

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• Technology Behind 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup Ball
• helping to engineer Jabulani
• technologically advanced
• robotic leg named Dave
• 1.22 metre (4 ft) rotating robotic leg
• perfectly designed soccer ball
• With its metal leg and its foot fitted to an axle
• Dave Ward, the third year student who designed it four years ago
• kick a soccer ball in a similar way as a human would, but with benefits – such as consistency, accuracy and no risk of injury
• Dave has allowed researchers to study the ways in which changes to a ball’s construction affect its movement.
• Dave to kick soccer balls in various ways
• We can do that over and over again, changing the ball to see what the results are
• ball reacts in any given context
• Jabulani, a Zulu word meaning ‘to celebrate’
• most accurate and roundest soccer ball in the world
• 30 percent more stable in flight
• a ball consisting of fewer panels has better consistency
• thermally bonded
• Jabulani has only eight
• putting more grooves on the ball’s surface improves the ball’s stability in the air
• more aerodynamic
• ‘Goose bumps’ on the micro-texture on the ball’s outer skin will provide players with a great grip on the ball in all weather conditions
• preventing it from slipping when wet.
• eleven different colours used on the ball represent the eleven players in every team
• symbolic
• eleven official languages of South Africa
• eleventh World Cup ball designed by Adidas
• eleven South African ethnic communities
• 11 June 2010 during the South Africa vs. Mexico match to receive its first kick

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