Soccer balls are generally spherical, as required by Law 2 of the Laws of the Game, which give the rules of soccer worldwide. The philosophy behind using a spherical ball is that it makes the ball fair, predictable, and easy to handle so that the skill of the players, not the quirks of the ball, is the deciding factor in how the ball behaves when played.
A circle.
A regulation soccer ball is comprised of both hexagons and pentagons.
The shape of a soccer ball is a sphere. The stitching pattern of a traditional ball is that of a truncated icosahedron cocentric with the sphere with the pattern projected onto the sphere.
it represents a persons head in a ball shape!
Anyone who wants to (including me!) That is in good shape and can kick a soccer ball !
Buckminsterfullerene C60
The soccer ball is round in three dimensions. It's a sphere. (The Laws of the Game actually specify a spherical ball.)
So that the ball can roll cleanly on the field.
A hollow soccer ball
It is a sphere shape with pentagons marked on it.
there are 12 black and 20 white pentagons. the shape is a pentagon and there are 32 shapes on a soccer ball.
It isn't called soccer ball because the soccer ball is the ball you use in soccer. See? I have actually heard people call it soccer and soccer ball.