Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018 with 6 Players in Team

Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018 Update:

To organize global football tournaments, a body with the name ‘International Socca Federation’ (ISF) in 2017. Pakistan named as one of its members. The International Soccer Federation (ISF) operate international small-sided football competitions for both national and club team in the formats of 5,6, 7 and 8-a-side football.

ISF brings together the expertise of the industry’s leaders to launch the most exciting international small-sided Soccer tournaments in locations across the world. Any national level organization which runs 5, 6, 7 or 8-a-side Soccer leagues is eligible to register to join ISF and gain the license to run their national team. Once registered and approved, the licensee becomes the exclusive operator of their country’s national team and the only organization eligible to represent their country in ISF world or continental Championships.

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During the inauguration of ISF Pakistan’s representation was carried out by members of Leisure League, who have also organized several mini-football events in Pakistan already.

In a statement issued Thursday the 08th February 2018, an official of Leisure Leagues said:

"Shahzeb Trunkwala of Leisure Leagues is appointed as vice president of the body."

While everyone is dreaming of seeing Pakistan feature in the World Cup and compete against best countries, Pakistan's 6-a-side Soccer team dreams are coming true as they will be participating in Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018.

The Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018 is an event which is organized by International Socca Federation, a world body for mini Soccer. The Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018 is played on a smaller ground with 6 players per team.

Lahore ICAW FC will represent Pakistan at the tournament. The team qualified for the Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018 event after they won the Pakistan’s Leisure League national championship.

In group matches of Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018, Pakistan will face teams from Spain, Russia, and Moldova. The complete schedule is mentioned below:

Each team will play a minimum of three group games, with the top two teams from each group moving into the knockout stages. Winners from groups A, D, F and H will go to one side of the draw. Those teams will pair off against runner-up teams from groups B, C, E and G. The other half of the draw will see Winners from groups B, C, E and G pair off against runner-up teams from groups A, D, F and H. Following true knockout style format, the losing teams from this point onward will be heading home. Quarterfinals, Semifinals and The Final are the only three games that will stand between them and world championship status.

The participating nations, from across Europe, Asia, America and Africa now know the teams which they will meet at the group stages, and the path that they will have to follow to progress to the final, with the winners of Group A facing the runners up of Group B, and so on, in the standard competition format. The groups of Socca Mini Football World Cup 2018 is given below:

Afaq Ahmed, the captain of ICAW FC talking to private news channel said that this playing a global tournament and representing the country is like dream coming true for him.
Afaq Ahmed said:

“What else one can do for football than to send a team from Pakistan to an international tournament. We have never been in a football World Cup. Even though Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018 is not a main Soccer World Cup but for us, Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018 will be of much bigger importance and we are hoping that the nation would be supporting us to claim the title for the country.”

The Pakistan Vie Socca Mini Football World Cup Lisbon 2018 will start from 23rd September 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Source: Mehran Post

FIFA World Cup 2018 Pakistani Sialkoti Football To Be Used in Matches

FIFA World Cup 2018 Pakistani Sialkoti Football Update:

When millions of football lovers cheer on their favourite teams at the 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia this summer, Pakistanis will have a special reason to rejoice, although the 198th-ranked football nation will not be participating in the mega event. FIFA World Cup 2018 Pakistani Sialkoti Football. 

Sialkot, a city commonly known as the home of sports goods in Pakistan, has yet again made headlines after it was revealed that the city will be supplying footballs for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in 2018. FIFA World Cup 2018 Pakistani Sialkoti Football.

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Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Alexey Dedov confirmed earlier in the week that his country was going to use Pakistan-made footballs for the World Cup matches. FIFA World Cup 2018 Pakistani Sialkoti Football. 

This is not the first time Sialkot has supplied sports goods for international events. In the editions of the FIFA World Cup, Pakistan-made footballs were used during qualifiers and practice matches as well. FIFA World Cup 2018 Pakistani Sialkoti Football.

Alexey Dedov, the Russian Ambassador to Pakistan said:

"Pakistan is one of the most renowned countries in the world in the manufacture of sport equipment. We want to enhance our cooperation with Pakistan to other sectors as well."

Located on the outskirts of northeastern Sialkot city, workers at a local sports company - which is a contracting manufacturer of global sports brand Adidas - are working extra hours to ensure on-time delivery of the footballs.

The city, which borders India, has been famous for producing finest quality sports goods and has been supplying footballs for mega events for a long time.

Forward Sports of Sialkot, which also makes footballs for the German Bundesliga, France Ligue 1 and the Champions League, was also the official football provider of 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Khawaja Masood, the chairman of the company, told Anadolu Agency:

"This is an honour for us, that we are going to provide footballs for the world cup once again. We are very excited to meet this challenge," Khawaja Masood, CEO of Forward Sports, the company entrusted with the task of making footballs for the big summer tournament."

Refusing to give the exact numbers of footballs the company is going to supply for the World Cup alone due to restrictions from Adidas, Khawaja said his firm produced a total of 700,000 footballs a month.

The football that will be used in the upcoming tournament is technically termed as thermo bonded, which was first introduced in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Other types of footballs produced in Sialkot are glued balls and hand stitched balls.

Thermo bonded balls are made by attaching the panels through heat - the latest technology adopted by Adidas and transferred to Forward Sports in 2013.

Khawaja told Anadolu Agency:

"Although Pakistan football team will not be participating in the forthcoming World Cup, its presence will be felt in all the matches [because of the balls]."

According to Husnain Cheema, president of the Pakistan Sports Goods Association, the country will export around 10 million footballs across the world this year.

Source: Mehran Post