By Abdur Rehman and Malaika Ansar

1. Sialkot, Pakistan
Presented by:
Muhammad Abdur Rehman
Malaika Ansar

2.  Uberoi limited was the first sporting
good factory in Sialkot.
 Two sikh brothers Opened this Factory
in 1888
 In 1922, a local entrepreneur received
British Empire Exports Award for
supplying footballs to British Army.

3. It became the
supplier of famous
Tango soccer ball,
designed by Adidas
during the FIFA
world cup 1978

4. • In April 1995, CBS broadcasted a
documentary investigating the use
of child labor in the industry.
• Soon after, international media
members and advocacy groups put
strong pressure on global brands
like Nike to stop importing soccer
balls from Sialkot.

5.  The stitching of siccer ball industry shifted from village homes to Factories or
centralized Workshops.
 Non Formal education centers were established to provide education upto grade 5
to the affected children.
The result was
encouraging.
Over 95% of all social
ball production in
Sialkot was deemed
Child labor free by 2003

6.  It was in the FIFA World Cup 2010 that the Pakistani
soccer ball didn’t win a place in the grand tournament
for the first time in a long time, and instead, the
machine-made Chinese ball was selected over the
hand-made Pakistani ball.
 But as the tournament progressed, the Chinese ball
came under heavy criticism for its inaccuracy and
difficulty to control and dribble.
 All this forced Adidas to return to its most acclaimed
soccer ball variation line ever – The Tango, bearing
the ‘Made in Pakistan’ tag.

7.  Sialkot is the only city of Pakistan where 99% products are exported to various
countries of the World
 Sialkot based small and medium industries are earning foreign exchange of over
US 1.6 billion dollars annually through exports and strengthening the national
economy.
 The cluster of firms produces 30 million soccer balls a year, or about 40% of World
production, including match balls for 2014 World cup, about 70% of World hand-
stitched production.
 In 2000, the exports of soccer balls from this cluster to US was worth USD 23.2
million Dollars.