Picture a football (soccer ball) in your head and you probably see the cartoon ideal—a roughly spherical ... rounder balls for professional play. By the 1970s, football designs began to coalesce ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An 8-year-old girl from Minnesota is getting backup from women’s pro football players in Kansas City after someone told her that “girls can’t play football.” ...

But in the end, I loved the manga cartoon Captain Tsubasa (about a young boy who became a famous footballer), so then I decided to play football.” Nakata, now 48, grew up in the Yamanashi ...

She loves football. Loves to watch the Kansas City Chiefs on TV. Loves to play. She plays football at recess with the boys at her grade school. Her mom, not a big sports fan herself, even went to ...