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Almost 70% of the world's soccer balls are made in one city in Pakistan — here's what it's like inside one of the factories

Soccer ball production is a major source of income in the city of Sialkot, with at least 1,000 soccer ball factories"The demand for footballs has dropped drastically due to the coronavirus because playgrounds are closed, there are no matches, people don't have the space to play it. So buyers have cut demand by 70%," said Waseem Shahbaz Lodhi, managing partner of Bola Gema Pakistan, a factory that produces 160,000 balls per month.

"The industry has been around for nearly a century, and that's why our perfection of skills is amazing," Lodhi said. FIFA-approved balls like the ones Bola Gema makes can sell for over $100 in the US —more than 37 million soccer balls

 

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