Football too hard to kick

Picture this for a minute…

You’ve just stepped onto the pitch via a substitution and you’re thrust straight into the action, with a soccer ball rolling towards you.

Once you’ve managed to find the correct posture and approach, you deliver a powerful shot that forces a good save out of the opposition goalkeeper.

But in the aftermath of that shot attempt, you begin to feel a throbbing pain on the foot that you used to kick the ball.

Which brings me to today’s topic of discussion on why soccer balls are so hard.

To put this as succinctly as I can…

Soccer balls are hard to feel mainly because of the tightly packed air molecules that exist within them, which come as a result of these objects being fully inflated with air pressure.