Football guides
Guides for players, parents and coaches
Five short guides: ball sizes by age, match or training balls, looking after a ball, Sialkot's football history, and buying in bulk.
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Football sizes explained: which size for which age
Sizes 3, 4 and 5 explained for players, parents, coaches and schools in Pakistan: what Law 2 of the Laws of the Game requires of a full-size ball, and why age guidance for younger players changes from country to country.
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Match ball or training ball: how to chooseMatch ball or training ball? Choose by how often the ball is used, the surface you play on, who uses it and how many balls your squad needs.
Buying guide
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How to look after a football: inflate, clean, dry, storeSimple, sourced habits for inflating, cleaning, drying and storing a football, from the pressure range in Law 2 to keeping balls out of hot cars.
Football care
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Sialkot and football making: a short historyA short, sourced history of Sialkot's football trade, from an 1889 origin story and the 1997 Atlanta Agreement on child labour to the rise of machine-made balls.
Sialkot
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Buying footballs for a school, club or academy: a checklistBuying footballs for a school, club or academy? Work through player numbers, sizes by age group, spares, pumps, bags, budget, delivery and payment, then request a bulk quote.
Bulk orders
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