INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pakistan, ranked 194th in FIFA ranking, won&t be at Qatar for the FIFA World Cup 2022 but Pakistan-made footballs will be at the world&s
most prestigious sporting event.Pakistan is one of the suppliers of the official match ball &Al Rihla& for Qatar World Cup.Pakistan&s
Forward Sports, in the city of Sialkot, is one of two manufacturers that have provided FIFA with at least 300,000 balls for this event
The other company is a China-based firm.Forward Sports told local media it has produced about one-third of the total number of balls, called
Al Rihla, which is Arabic for &the journey& and that the ball was unveiled in March by German sportswear company Adidas as the official
World Cup ball.This was the third successive contract after the company also landed deals for the 2014 and 2018 World Cup events.&There is a
match ball — used by players during the international game
But there is another — the more economical balls that are sold in the open market
We have a 35 percent share in match balls (for 2022), but a substantially higher proportion of the open-market product at around 70
percent,& Hassan Masood, director at Forward Sports, was quoted as saying in Business Recorder.The post Pakistan-made footballs make it to
this year&s FIFA World Cup first appeared on Ariana News.
