Pakistan’s national football team is 200th out of 211 teams in the FIFA world rankings.
The country’s more than 200 million people will still be feeling part of the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals to be played in Doha this winter.
workers at the company’s sprawling facility are working extra hours to ensure on-time delivery of the footballs.
Production of high-quality footballs is not Sialkot’s only forte. It also exports sports goods ranging from cricket bats to hockey sticks.
Before that, Pakistan had supplied hand-stitched soccer balls for most of the World Cups from the 1990s to 2010