Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce on Monday announced that Pakistani city of Sialkot will manufacture footballs for use in matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup scheduled to be held in Russia this summer.
A Sialkot-based sports goods manufacturing firm Forward Sports will manufacture the official football Telestar 18 of the 2018 Cup, the ministry announced during a ceremony. Forward Sports had also provided the footballs for FIFA World Cup 2014.
It is believed that Pakistan exports around 40 million footballs a year and that from July 2017-April 2018, the total revenue of the football exports exceeded 122 million dollars.