I gave some version of this lecture on the Mathematics of the football/soccer ball several times, in different places and in various languages. Florence 20/05/2024 Gonit Sora (online) 14/06/2021 Form their website: Gonit Sora is a multi lingual (English and Assamese) web magazine devoted to publishing well written and original articles related to science in general and mathematics in particular. One of its founders and current editor is Manjil P. Saikia, a former ICTP Diploma student, who invited me to give this online talk.