6. The soccer ball, as Kahn and many other goalies would notice, is "built in favor of the striker" meaning that it has several characteristics that make shots stay on the ground and thus, having more chances to hit the goal.
On the other side of the barricade, many strikers stated that the 2006 World Cup soccer ball was extremely comfortable to shoot and that it didn't have the usual unintentional mid-air swerve that most other balls had.
