Jabulani: Celebration for whom?

Before the World Cup, the Jabulani was introduced by Adidas citing their blueprints for what was to be the roundest, most accurate ball to date. Every four years they say this and every four years there are complaints. This is the first time that as a fan, I could actually see what the disgruntled players are talking about.

Skyrocketing ball after ball is prevalent when watching an under-16 youth league match, but its hard for me to believe it when players such as Messi and Fernando Torres are missing routine goals by launching them meters over the bar. As for the ones that actually do go in, they look like they completely change trajectory in the air, dipping, diving, and hitting the net, but seemingly not where the player wanted it to go. (eg. Schweinsteiger’s shot leading to Muller’s goal vs. Uruguay in 3rd place match)

Some people I generally trust about scientific research, NASA, agree that this ball is very unpredictable (Watch this video from "4-4-2") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFX7laMy3q4&feature=player_embedded

With all of Adidas’ AeroGrooves and thermally bonded panels, the ball just doesn’t seem normal. In trying to create a sophisticated and intelligent ball, it really took away from the fact that players don’t normally play with a ball like this and we’ve seen it be very difficult to control...not to mention it skipping away and out of bounds during many through ball attempts.

While I like to think that these players are good enough to play with any ball, and we’ve seen that to an extent they can, why doesn’t Adidas just stick to what they know and not make it such a controversy before, during and after each cup?