South Africa 2010 World Cup
2010 FIFA World Cup: Time to Start Planning
Between June 11 and July 11, 2010 South Africa will host the 19th FIFA World Cup, an international tournament for football. It would be the first time that the World Cup has been hosted by an African country.
The stadiums located in the following cities will host the events: Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg (two), Kimberley, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria and Rustenburg.
Date: January 23rd, 2008 |
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Durban A1 GP: Germany wins again.
South Africa’s only race on the GP circuit went of like a bang on Sunday at the Durban A1 GP.
The street circuit was said to be very challenging, so much so that 14 teams did not finish the race. The South African team driven by Adrian Zaugg crashed twice, once on the first lap then on the same turn on the eighth, putting him out the race. Germany stormed to an eight successive win and breaking records all over the place.
Apart from losing to Germany, the race was a great success for South Africa and puts us in the mood and the spotlight for more such events including of course 2010!!
People commented on the accessibility of the A1 series compared to its big brother F1 counterpart, with spectators allowed to view the cars in the pits and even take photo’s with drivers!
Date: February 26th, 2007 |
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Link Love: Project 2010
If you’re looking for one of the most comprehensive sources of 2010 World Cup news on the Web, click over to Project2010, and feast your eyes!
The site is busy, spunky, already very-well filled out, and represents the best of the local (”co.za”) online World Cup offerings. It’s got big-time SA football sponsors like KickOff Magazine, and will be well-positioned to reap a few rewards come the big event.
Keep it up, Project2010!
Date: September 3rd, 2006 |
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While We're At it, What's Happening with 2010?
Your Correspondent, renowned 2010 junkie, has suffered through World Cup news withdrawal for over a week, and is now about to go out there into the online wilderness and get his fix. Wish me luck!
[5 min later] Hmmm…
Date: August 22nd, 2006 |
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Brazilian Piper Set to Call SA Soccer Tune
You know the old saw - “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” This will hopefully not apply, however, to the next four years of South African soccer, which is about to welcome Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira into its hot-and-cold clutches, if various rumors swirling in the local media can be credited.
Date: July 23rd, 2006 |
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Countdown to 2010: World cup 997 Days to kickoff :)
The 8 host cities around South Africa staged celebrations on Saturday to mark 1000 Days till the start of the 2010 World Cup.
The celebrations were part of the 2010 Local Organising Committee and the host cities’ plans to make the public aware of the magnitude of the soccer extravaganza which will be held on the African continent for the first time. The body wishes to give a small kick in the bum to businesses and entrepreneurs to get moving on projects taking advantage of 2010.
The 2010 World cup is a huge force for change …
Date: September 17th, 2007 |
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2010 South Africa, World cup: Cape Town (not Bafana Bafana) may lose semifinal!
Seemingly not all Capetonians are keen on hosting the world cup semifinal, at least not in a revamped Greenpoint stadium. The “Greenpoint common association” seeks to block the reconfiguration of the commons area including a golf course and football clubs, with court action.
If it goes to court, the delayed start may well put us out of the running for a 2009 completion, which is the condition of the event organizers. No No No!
The stadium plan is a very ambitious one and will most definitely transform the whole area, which at present is quite higgledy-piggledy.
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Date: December 1st, 2006 |
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Le Roi Bresilien Assumes Throne
The Monsignors of South African soccer have spoken, and the nation is in awe. Of their rank, but rank, excesses, that is. Carlos Parreira has been confirmed as the new national coach, and is to earn a breathtaking $150,000 per month, at current exchange rates, for the next four years. Tax free. The many previous Rois of Bafana Bafana are now well and truly dead (it was thirteen in ten years at last count, wasn’t it?) - long live the Roi!
Date: August 29th, 2006 |
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Weather Whips SA Hither, Thither
The sun has reluctantly decided to show itself again in Cape Town, but the cold front that has menaced us for the past week has shipped off to other parts (without taking the cold along with it, alas), causing snow to fall in Soweto, of all places, as well as flooding in Knysna.
I’m sure that, despite the chill, Mr. Danny Jordaan and company over at the 2010 World Cup offices are breaking out into a sweat. Imagine the Cup’s final match - which is normally held sometime in July - being played under a light dusting of …
Date: August 3rd, 2006 |
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Green Point it Is! (If We Can Find the Cash!)
Cape Town’s Atlantic Seabord suburb of Green Point has been confirmed as the best spot for a 70,000-seat mega-stadium, which the city needs to build if it wishes to have any hope of hosting a semifinal match during the 2010 World Cup. The 9-hole Metropolitan Golf Course will not, however, have to make way when construction gets started. The city will instead build the new stadium on the site of the existing one - or may do, rather, if it can sort out the small matter of a R3-billion-and-change funding shortfall.
Map of Green Point
The stadium will cost around R4-billion, …
Date: July 21st, 2006 |
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