Texturing a sphere in OpenGL with glTexGen

I want to get an earth texture on sphere. My sphere is an icosphere built with many triangles (100+) and I found it confusing to set the UV coordinates for whole sphere. I tried to use glTexGen and effects are quite close but I got my texture repeated 8 times (see image) . I cannot find a way to make it just wrap the whole object once. Here is my code where the sphere and textures are created.

    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glTexGeni(GL_T, GL_TEXTURE_GEN_MODE, GL_OBJECT_LINEAR);
glTexGeni(GL_S, GL_TEXTURE_GEN_MODE, GL_OBJECT_LINEAR);
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);

for (int i = 0; i < new_sphere->NumOfTrians; i++)
{
    Triangle *draw_Trian = new_sphere->Trians+i;
    glVertex3f(draw_Trian->pnts[0].coords[0], draw_Trian->pnts[0].coords[1], draw_Trian->pnts[0].coords[2]);
    glVertex3f(draw_Trian->pnts[1].coords[0], draw_Trian->pnts[1].coords[1], draw_Trian->pnts[1].coords[2]);
    glVertex3f(draw_Trian->pnts[2].coords[0], draw_Trian->pnts[2].coords[1], draw_Trian->pnts[2].coords[2]);

}
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
free(new_sphere->Trians);
free(new_sphere);

glEnd();