Pakistan may be known as a cricketing nation but not many know that the soccer balls for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Brazil will be imported from that country. A report in 'Express Tribune' said, when World Cup's Chinese supplier Adidas failed to keep up with the demand of soccer balls in Rio de Janeiro, a Sialkot ball manufacturing company then stepped in and got the contract.Factory owner Khwaja Akhtar, who has made balls for the German Bundesliga, French league and the Champions League, is excited with the challenge of being a part of World Cup soccer history. He said, it was when he felt the roar of the crowd at the 2006 World Cup that he dreamt of a goal of his own, to manufacture the ball for the biggest football tournament on the planet.Sialkot, a town in eastern Pakistan, was once the unassailable soccer ball production capital of the world –exporting about 30 million balls a year, an estimated 40 percent of global production — but India and China have recently caught up.