World Cup 2010: South Africa

World Cup 2010 : South Africa

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South Africa is hosting the Soccer World Cup in the year 2010 . In to make it a huge success , the government is adopting extensive measures to provide sophisticated facilities and renovate ten stadiums in nine provinces throughout the nation . The Soccer World Cup started in the year 1930 , but no African nation had ever played host to this event Thus the 2010 soccer World Cup would be the first international

soccer event to be hosted by an African nation (South Africa Thinks Big for World Soccer Cup 2010 2005

Furthermore , the concerned officials are preparing another five soccer fields to facilitate practice for the players in this event . In addition , there will be friendly matches between the teams of the different countries that are participating in this event . The 2002 World Soccer Cup was jointly hosted by South Korea and Japan . They had prepared , nearly thirty stadiums as venues for that event , nevertheless not even twenty stadiums were utilized for this event (South Africa Thinks Big for World Soccer Cup 2010 2005

The construction cost of these stadiums is to be shared by the national government and the governments of the provinces where the event is to be held , as well as by the administrations of the cities , which are to host the event . The FIFA will also contribute to this international event The government of South Africa is going to conduct a meeting with the officials of the Southern Africa Development Community Supreme Council on Sport in Cape Town to draft a strategy to conduct the international event and to discuss the importance of the event for the region (South Africa Thinks Big for World Soccer Cup 2010 2005

South Africa is already ahead of its schedule for hosting this event It has sufficient time and it has already announced the names of nine cities that are to host the World Cup . The CEO of South Africa 's 2010 organizing committee , Danny Jordan declared that the FIFA had already settled seventy five percent of the contracts to the tournament and that sufficient funds would be generated out of them . According to him , the European broadcasting contracts were already signed by FIFA , which would secure US 1 .2 billion . This amount is more than what had been secured in 2002 World Cup (South Africa shifts into 2010 gear 2006

Expectations are that there would be more funding than that of the 2006 Germany Soccer World Cup . Danny Jordan added that they hope to generate additional revenues by providing all the details of the tournaments on mobile phones . Jordan declared that this World Cup would be organized as a world class event and that the revenues so far realized would be the greatest amongst all the World Cup events that had been conducted till date (South Africa shifts into 2010 gear 2006

The cities , which are to host this...