Sialkot, Pakistan, has been a worldwide hub of football, or soccer ball, production since the late 1800s. British colonials paid local cobblers to re-create the balls they used at home, and production ...
Forget any notion of a 32-paneled soccer ball, true stitching or black-and-white design. The Brazuca, the official adidas-made match ball for World Cup 2014, engineers roundness well beyond tradition.
Pakistan may be known as a cricketing nation but not many know that the soccer balls for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Brazil will be imported from the 159th-ranked football nation. When World Cup’s ...