Production of the official 2014 World Cup balls in Pakistan

• Production of the official 2014 World Cup balls in Pakistan

At one of the factories in the Pakistani city of Sialkot in full swing production of official goals of the World Cup, which kicks off in Brazil in two weeks, on June 12. Production has been a longtime partner of Adidas, the Pakistani company Forward Sports.

Why Pakistan? After all, on the football field, this country can boast some serious success. But do not forget that it is a former colony of the British Empire. According to one legend, served in the Punjab at the beginning of the last century, the British officers decided to play football, but soon their ball accidentally punctured. They appealed to the local shoemaker to the sewed them the ball, and the shoemaker happy to comply with this order, and then decided to retrain and begin to make their own soccer balls. So it went - now one siyalkotskoy factory can produce up to 70 million balls per year.

A worker factory to produce footballs checks the shape of the product.

Workers factories produce curly panel gluing balls.

factory worker takes curly panel of a machine that applies the glue on the edges.

The worker Wallpapers ball mill curly panels.

factory worker uses a hair dryer for quick drying glue.

factory worker okleivayut balls sculpted panels.

factory worker eliminate cavities in the joints.

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Workers at the factory eliminating cavities in the joints.

factory worker conduct a final check balls.

factory worker takes away the finished balls out of the shop.

Chief Executive Officer Forward Sports (Pvt) Ltd. Khawaja Masood Akhtar gives an interview with the official World Cup ball 2014 of its own production.