LEAD: On a warm day, when the rains have cleared the air, many boys might be out kicking around a soccer ball. In Sialkot, where sporting goods are a cottage industry, Shahid Amanatulli and many of his friends sit in the shade with a master craftsman learning how to stitch a ball.
On a warm day, when the rains have cleared the air, many boys might be out kicking around a soccer ball. In Sialkot, where sporting goods are a cottage industry, Shahid Amanatulli and many of his friends sit in the shade with a master craftsman learning how to stitch a ball.
The roar of the crowds from the 1990 World Cup matches in Italy have died away, but the confetti is still falling on this corner of Pakistan in the form of orders for soccer balls.
''It happens every four years,'' Khawaja Javaid Akhtar, the general manager of the Capital Sports Corporation, said in his office here. ''After the World Cup craze, we get heavy orders.''
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