A British officer once took his deflated football to a cobbler in Sialkot now in modern day Pakistan. The other day he got his football fixed but then saw another football besides the cobbler, he asked where he got it to which the man said he made it himself copying from the ball he gave him. The officer started to pay him to make more footballs.
This started an industry that to this days makes the most footballs in the world, including the World Cu balls, the Champions League balls and other top leagues.