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	Encyclopedia: Football World Cup 2010 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Port Elizabeth Stadium is a proposed football (soccer) stadium in Port Elizabeth for the 2010 Football World Cup.
		Football: In a country with a very strong sports culture, the organisation resulting from the 2010 FIFA World Cup will assist the association in reaching the highest international football standards, filling the gaps from the past.
		Football: The football legacy will be limited, but with the new infrastructure resulting from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, they may have an open opportunity for the development of their League and youth football.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-2010 (1857 words)

	FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The World Cup final tournament, which has been held every four years since 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was cancelled due to World War II, is the most widely-viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games.
		The issues facing the early World Cup tournaments were travel (for teams outside the continent of the host nations), and war, with the 1942 and 1946 editions being cancelled due to World War II.
		The 2014 World Cup, which FIFA has earmarked for South America, is expected to be held in Brazil as CONMEBOL, the South American Football Confederation, has already backed it as their choice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_World_Cup (3107 words)

	Football World Cup 2010 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		FIFA authorities had the idea of giving an African nation the opportunity to host the World Cup for the great development of football reached in this continent shown by the perfomance of Cameroon, Algeria and Nigeria in FIFA World Cup and other Tournaments like FIFA U-21 World Championship.
		Libya had also asked to be withdrawn from consideration prior to the vote after it refused to let Israel participate there in the event that Libya was chosen as the host of the World Cup.
		In 2005, the organisers released a provisional list of 13 venues to be used for the World Cup; the list will be narrowed down to a final selection of ten venues in summer 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_World_Cup_2010 (349 words)

	SA tops in Fifa's 2010 report - SouthAfrica.info
		The report noted South Africa's "excellent overall infrastructure" and "world class cultural and tourist attractions", praised the country's World Cup plans as "clear, detailed and stable", and found that a World Cup in South Africa would generate "significant unity among the different ethnic groups that were separated socially, culturally and in sport for years".
		Football: The infrastructure and organisation resulting from the 2010 FIFA World Cup may give the association the know-how to run a full professional football league.
		Football: The infrastructure and organisation resulting from the 2010 FIFA World Cup will stimulate the development of current youth plans and keep the country at a very high African football level.
	www.southafrica.info /2010/fifareport.htm (1731 words)

	2010 World Cup South Africa - SouthAfrica.info
		The building, with its distinctive football-shaped dome, will be the headquarters of Fifa and the local organising committee during the 2010 World Cup.
		Danny Jordaan, CEO of the local organising committee, says South Africa's preparations for the 2010 World Cup are ahead of schedule.
		Football is the most widely played sport in South Africa, with its traditional support base in the fl community.
	www.southafrica.info /2010 (260 words)

	afrol News - South Africa to host 2010 World Cup
		This first World Cup to be played in Africa may help put South Africa on the map as a tourist and investment destination, South Africans hope.
		Football officials in Rabat blamed the defeat on Mr Blatter personally, who had "used all his weight to influence the outcome of the vote," according to a Moroccan member of the bidding committee.
		The Libyan bid to host the World Cup was excluded during the morning as the national committee had confirmed it would not allow an Israeli team to participate in the Cup on its soil.
	www.afrol.com /articles/12216 (845 words)

	Football World Cup FIFA 2010 South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		World Cup Qualifying: Captain Claudio Reyna and Leeds winger Eddie Lewis were recalled in a 20-man United States squad for the World Cup qualifying match against Trinidad and Tobago on Aug. 17 in East Hartford, Connecticut.
		Football: FIFA expect Liverpool to compete in the World Club Championship in Japan in December despite the club casting doubts over their participation.
		The World Cup is looming at the end of this season and Tottenham boss Martin Jol believes Jermain Defoe has the capacity to leave Germany as one of the planet's greatest strikers.
	www.2010fifaworldcup.co.za (3214 words)

	Soccer World Cup 2010 South Africa
		From it's humble beginnings in 1930 the Soccer World Cup has grown to be one of the most spectacular sporting events in the world.
		The World Cup is the most important competition in international soccer and is organised by FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), the sport's governing body.
		In 2010 the Soccer World Cup final tournament will be held in Africa for the first time ever.
	www.swc2010.com (302 words)

	2010 World Cup \| Go2Africa.com \| Football World Cup South Africa
		Subscription is now open for our World Cup newsletter to keep you in the loop with developments as they take place.
		With the 2006 World Cup in Germany still to come and the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa nearly five years away, you may feel there is plenty of time before you start making your plans.
		Combine this with the 2010 Football World Cup — billed as the biggest sporting event of all time — and you have a situation in which masses of people are going to be trying to book a limited number of flights, accommodation, tickets and more.
	www.go2africa.com /football-world-cup-2010 (381 words)

	:: 2010 WORLD CUP :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		WHILE South Africa goes all out to prove to the footballing nations it is capable of hosting an event on the level of the Soccer World Cup, it already holds a record for hosting the largest soccer tournament in the world.
		JUST days ahead of the crucial visit by Fifa officials to assess the country's bid to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup, Johannesburg's city representatives were making sure all the prospective venues were in tip-top condition.
		The Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa), football's world governing body, decided last September that the 2010 event would be held in an African country for the first time since the inception of the finals in 1958.
	www.joburg.org.za /soccer_city/soccer_sa2010bid.stm (973 words)

	Football World Cup 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 2006 Football World Cup is scheduled to take place in Germany, after a tense vote.
		For the first time in the history of the World Cup (after the first event in 1930), the defending champion (Brazil) does not qualify automatically.
		The 8 group winners and the two best runners-up qualify for the 2006 World Cup Finals, the remaining 6 runners-up will be drawn against each other for 3 play-off matches on a home-and-away basis to determine the other 3 qualifiers.
	www.2010fifaworldcup.co.za /footballworldcup2006.html (842 words)

	ipedia.com: Football World Cup Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Football World Cup is the most important competition in international football (soccer).
		Organised by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's governing body, the World Cup finals tournament is the most widely-viewed and followed sporting event in the world, more so than even the Olympic Games.
		The first FIFA World Cup was held in Uruguay and ran from July 13- 30, 1930.
	www.ipedia.com /football_world_cup.html (776 words)

	South Africa 2010 : Information Site for the 2010 FIFA World Cup to be hosted by South Africa
		Bafana Bafana suffered a crippling loss to Ghana in their World Cup qualifier at the FNB Stadium on Saturday afternoon, going down 2-0 to the Black Stars, falling to second in African Group Two qualifying behind the Ghanaians.
		The CEO of SA's 2010 World Cup organising committee, Danny Jordaan, has urged the country's soccer fans to get into the habit of buying their tickets in good time - warning that, from as early as 2008, South Africans would be "fighting" for tickets with fans from all around the world.
		South Africa is to host the 2006 Homeless Street Soccer World Cup, an annual four-a-side event which attracts teams from all over the world.
	www.southafrica2010.org (439 words)

	SADOCC - News - SOUTH AFRICA: Football World Cup 2010 for the first time in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		South Africa will host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first in the history of world football's governing body to be held in Africa.
		It would be recalled that the 'Rainbow nation' hosted the 1995 Rugby World Cup and the 2003 Cricket World Cup successfully but the soccer World Cup, which began in 1930, has never been held on the continent.
		The hosting of the 2010 World Cup finals was a perfect gift for the country as it celebrates 10 years of democracy.
	www.sadocc.at /news/2004-170.shtml (449 words)

	News24
		The 2010 Fifa World Cup is coming to a city near you - find out all you need to know about the Cities and Stadiums where it will happen.
		South Africa''s soccer World Cup Committee is about to start an audit of the capabilities of the cities anxious to host matches in 2010.
		The 2010 World Cup preparatory committee chairperson, Irvin Khoza has denied media reports that there is a rift between him and chief executive Danny Jordaan.
	www.news24.com /News24/Sport/SA_2010_bid/Home/0,,2-9-1606,00.html (626 words)

	BBC SPORT \| FOOTBALL \| Africa suffers 2010 World Cup setback
		Plans to stage the 2010 World Cup in Africa have been thrown into confusion less than 24 hours after Fifa indicated the continent would stage the tournament.
		Fifa are keen to take the World Cup to Africa for the first time, especially after South Africa was narrowly defeated in the race to stage the 2006 event by Germany.
		Fifa are keen to introduce a policy whereby the World Cup visit each continent by rotation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/football/newsid_1223000/1223242.stm (333 words)

	Home - Germany 2006 South Africa 2010 World Cup Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		South Africa are the 49th best team in the World in January 2006 according to the FIFA World Ranking System.
		Speaking at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland Blatter said "We have no worries because we have identified already, a certain time ago, that three or four stadia had some problems" adding these were being corrected in time for a final FIFA inspection before the World Cup begins in June.
		In August last year Danny Jordaan said live on air that the stadiums for the World Cup in 2010 would be decided in December 2005.
	www.worldcup2010southafrica.com (736 words)

	Guardian \| South Africa celebrates winning bid for 2010 football World Cup
		South Africa staged the 1995 rugby World Cup and 2003 cricket World Cup, but football is far more popular among its fl majority.
		He predicted that hosting the World Cup would help transform South Africa into "a diverse and tolerant society whose local economy is surging ahead like an express train".
		The finance minister, Trevor Manuel, said it would be expensive to bring South Africa's stadiums up to World Cup standards but that the country would gain from tourism.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4925388-103681,00.html (370 words)

	acup
		At that time he emphasised that it could be at least a year before the group investigating how to make rotation work made their final recommendations and said he expected an announcement at the FIFA session in Seoul before the start of the 2002 World Cup.
		But sources involved in the rotation study have confirmed to AFP that their report could be finished within four months and put before the FIFA executive committee at their meeting in Buenos Aires in July.
		South Africa was beaten in its bid for candidacy for the 2006 World Cup when Germany pipped them by one vote after Charlie Dempsey, Oceania's representative on the FIFA executive committee, abstained from the final round of voting, causing an international outcry.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/04/03/sport/ACUP.HTM (406 words)

	City Mayors: Football World Cup 2006 - Stadiums
		After the 2006 FIFA World Cup was awarded to Germany, FC Kaiserslautern increased their efforts to improve the Fritz-Walter-Stadion to World Cup standards.
		The predecessor to today’s modern World Cup stadium was the Müngersdorfer Stadion, the only completely covered stadium in Germany when it was built in 1975.
		The Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion was improved to FIFA World Cup standard as early as 1999-2001, with an investment of around 54 million euro on the main stand.
	www.citymayors.com /sport/worldcup_stadiums.html (1708 words)

	Pakistan aims at football World Cup 2010 .:. NewKerala - India's Top Online Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		London: Pakistan is aiming to reach the World Cup finals - not in cricket but in the 2010 football event.
		Pakistan's Football Association, based in Lahore, has offered Kean a pivotal role in a multi-million pound restructuring plan designed to drag them out of the lower reaches of the FIFA world rankings and to qualify for the World Cup in South Africa.
		The Pakistani association has identified him as the man to lead the country into their first ever World Cup finals and urged him to pledge allegiance to his parents' homeland though he has represented England at the under-20 level.
	www.newkerala.com /news.php?action=fullnews&id=36209 (330 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| South Africa to host World Cup: Your reaction
		This is a history moment not only for South Africa but the African continent because staging the World Cup means economic gain, money, tourism etc. Special thanks also to rest of the world for continued commitment and desire to stage the event in South Africa.
		Images of Mr Mandela (a champion of peace) holding the World Cup (amidst all the war and turmoil that surrounds us) are soothing to the eye.
		South Africa has shown the world that a country can change and the world has acknowledged this by allowing it to host the 2010 World Cup.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/talking_point/3717125.stm (2092 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 341
		In Soweto, Tebogo Sihlandu wore a South African football jersey and was wrapped in a South African flag as he watched the announcement from the FIFA football federation broadcast from Zurich on a big screen set up in a local stadium.
		The World Cup 2010 will be the biggest international event ever organised in South Africa and a multi-billion dollar injection into its economy.
		Mbeki said that the 2010 World Cup in South Africa would be an "African Cup" that would be welcoming to all.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/05/16/d40516040840.htm (488 words)

	S.Africa's greats try to capture 2010 World Cup -DAWN - Sport; 15 May, 2004
		Football offered "the only joyful release" during his imprisonment on Robben Island, Mandela added in a rare soulful moment of a polished but lacklustre presentation by the South African bid.
		FIFA's inspection report on the five African nations bidding to host football's lucrative top event highlighted a "reliable" and "stable" bid from South Africa, and the potential for an "excellent" World Cup there.
		And Alan Rothenberg, widely credited with bringing the premier footballing tournament to the US in 1994, and the bid adviser for rival Morocco also played down Mandela's impact.
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/15/spt10.htm (574 words)

	2010 Football World Cup Opinions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Namibian's Corry Ihuhua spoke to fans and officials after the quarter-final matches of the NFA Cup held at Otjiwarongo over the weekend, to hear what they had to say about the impact the 2010 World Cup will have on Namibia, as well as any other general comments on the event.
		Firstly, through the spinoffs that the World Cup will have on the tourism front, as well as the use of infrastructure by some teams from Europe.
		The tournament of this magnitude will also put us on the world map as a great tourist destination, while it will also awaken the other nations to see the potential of South Africa, which was regarded as a hopeless country, especially by Morocco and Egypt which lost the bid.
	www.namibian.com.na /2004/may/sport/0441B42B99.html (1169 words)

	FIFA.com
		The prospect of two countries co-hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ is therefore out of the question.
		The inspection group for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ headed by the President of the Belgian football association, Jan Peeters, have shown total commitment to their work.
		The announcement of the host country for the first-ever FIFA World Cup™ to be held in Africa is scheduled for 12.00 h CET at an international media conference in the World Trade Center in Zurich.
	www.fifa.com /en/worldcup/index/0,3360,101298,00.html?comp=WF&year=2010&articleid=101298 (389 words)

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