{"id":136588,"date":"2025-09-15T19:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=136588"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:23:30","slug":"the-most-dangerous-football-%f0%9f%98%b3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=136588","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dangerous Football \ud83d\ude33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yw_c6ewjmMA?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>This morning, I played pickup with iShowSpeed in Central Park, and he was not a big fan of my ball&#8230; On paper, it&#8217;s pretty nice. The Nike Flight comes in 5 different tiers, and mines&#8217; by far the most expensive. For $160, you&#8217;d think everyone would like it, but every time I bring it out people say the same thing. This ball is way too hard. For 3 years, I gaslit myself into believe it was all my head. Turns out, Nike actually did this intentionally&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>How many of you remember the Adidas Jabulani? It knuckled so badly, brands were forced to switch up their design; including Nike. To get it to fly more consistently, they added technology called &#8220;Aeroswift Grooves&#8221; onto the outside of the ball, which have the bizarre side-effect of making it much harder. Why? Former football&#8217;s like the Teamgeist and Jabulani had a flat, smooth surface. Nike&#8217;s new ball has a number of grooves, concentrating the force into a much smaller area, therefore making it feel considerably harder. When I brought it to pickup with Speed literally nobody liked it, so we ended up using a $15 replica ball instead. In some cases, cheaper balls actually work better&#8230; #football #soccer #ball #speed #skills #ronaldo #futbol #sports #facts #footballshorts #review #best #goals #cr7<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yw_c6ewjmMA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I played pickup with iShowSpeed in Central Park, and he was not a big fan of my ball&#8230; On paper, it&#8217;s pretty nice. The Nike Flight comes in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1985,"featured_media":136589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}