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Standard soccer balls are truncated icosahedrons

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The classic black and white stitched sphere is not a perfect round orb. It is a harsh geometric shape strictly composed of exactly twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons.

Standard soccer balls are truncated icosahedrons
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