Share 'equal panels on irregular surface (soccer ball)'

Hi everyone, ive been trying to do something for a while, and its been honestly driving me crazy...  in essence, i simply want to create a soccer ball! the pattern on a soccer ball.. where all the pentagons (or whatever geometry i want to panel) are distributed equally. The problem im having is that when i panel, its doing it based on the isocurves of the surface, and so when the iso curves con…