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Photos show time-intensive, hands-on process where a factory in Pakistan makes soccer balls for the World Cup ...

Pakistan is playing a big part in the 2022 World Cup, making balls used in Qatar and selling the replicas to fans worldwide.

Welcome to our video! Join us as we take you inside the Soccer Ball Factory to witness the fascinating process of manufacturing soccer balls with different techniques on a large scale.

Forty percent of soccer balls used worldwide are produced in a small town in Pakistan called Sialkot. Nearly 1,000 factories in town make the leather-covered orbs, and the region produces 30 ...

Workers collect and examine completed balls at a factory in the small Pakistani town of Sialkot, the soccer ball manufacturing capital of the world.

Even though it is a cricket-mad nation, Pakistan is playing a big part in the soccer World Cup by making the balls used on the training fields in Qatar and the replicas sold to fans worldwide.

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IMAGE: A worker moves a lot of finished balls out of the production area inside the soccer ball factory, in Sialkot, Pakistan. Photograph: Mohsin Raza/Reuters Even though it is a cricket-mad ...

A worker checks the finish of a soccer ball before packing it in the soccer ball factory, in Sialkot, Pakistan on Nov 30. — Reuters ...