FIFA World Cup 2010 - City Guide PART 1

If you're a football fan, and even short-interest in the game, you should know that 19 - FIFA World Cup held in South Africa in 2010. In the tournament 2010 World Cup, soccer festival for fans of games ranging from 11 32 June with the team in the competition and the finals will be held on July 11. This is the first time an African country has long been famous for the tournament since its inception in 1930.

Places in the World Cup 2010
In 2005, FIFA (International Agency for football), it was decided that the 13 seats in South Africa, the games in 2010 World Cup. Nevertheless, in March 2006, the initial selection was limited to 10 seats (9 cities), the two stadiums in Johannesburg, for the games. Im Folgenden wird ein kurzer Leitfaden zu Johannesburg, Durban, Kapstadt und Pretoria, was zu tun und zu sehen, in jeder Stadt und zu genießen, wie das Turnier!

You can learn about other cities, and 5 places in the world championship in 2010 - Part 2 Guide the city.

Johannesburg ...
Johannesburg is the largest town in South Africa, and in the provincial capital of Gauteng. Also known as la''Ciudad Gold''is major economic centers of South Africa. The main industry in Johannesburg is the trade in diamonds and gold, as well as extraction of natural resources. The largest population of Johannesburg is about 8 million people. This was the scene of the famous gold rush in the late 19 th century, as well as the tensions leading to war between the Boer settlers and the native Britons. Weather wise, the city has a warm and sunny climate, because their position on the Highveld in the eastern part of South Africa.

Games for World Cup 2010 held in the renovated stadium, Soccer City and Ellis Park Stadium.

Durban ...
Durban is the 3 rd largest city in South Africa with a population of over 3 million people. The hotel is located in the province of KwaZulu-Natal and is a famous port city. Modern Durban was a British colony in 1824, because of the enormous importance to maritime trade. Its significance as an important port city and today is one of the most important tourist destinations in South Africa.

Together with the maritime trade, the city is a major financial and industrial center. There are many museums, shows growth in the city of its maritime trade and marine aquariums, which are located in the city.

Games at the World Cup will be held at the Moses Mabhida stadium. The main tourist area of Durban called Golden Mile, a beach with views of the Indian Ocean.
In the golden sand and warm water to make it a paradise for lovers of sun and surf slave!


Cape Town ...
La''Ciudad known as''Mother, this is the 2 nd most populous city in South Africa. Its origins can be linked to the development of the port to meet the needs of the Dutch East Indies. The hotel is located in the Western Cape in South Africa, the major manufacturing industries and construction. Moreover, the city is booming because of its status as one of the cities of the World Cup in 2010.

One of the major tourist attraction in Cape Town is Table Mountain, and its national parks. Cape Town is also a selection of beautiful beaches. You can take a boat to Robben Iceland, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for nearly 30 years. The original Cape Dutch architecture is worth seeing in the city and the city is a gateway to the rest of South Africa, as well as in connection with all major cities. World Cup Matches will be played in the 2010 Green Point Stadium.


What can we do in Cape Town by car?

Pretoria ...
The hotel is located in the northern province of Gauteng, Pretoria, as the executive capital of South Africa. Founded in 1855 in the Boer settlers, the city is located 50 kilometers north of Johannesburg, and is surrounded by the Magaliesberg mountain range.

There so much to see and do in this city and a house in the beautiful National Zoological Gardens of South Africa. Pretoria National Botanical Garden is also worth a visit, along with Austin Roberts bird sanctuary. There is also a great choice of museums to enjoy, including the Kruger Museum and the Transvaal. Protected areas are also worth seeing. Manufacturing and engineering are the two main industries here, as well as the largest university in South Africa.
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FIFA World Cup 2010

World Cup
The greatest sporting event in the world is no more than a year. This, of course, World Cup, the soccer event, which every four years.

South Africa should be reviewed in 2010 to host the Davis Cup, in different cities in southern Africa, including Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban and Bloemfontein. The tournament starts in June 11, 2010 and completed in exactly a month July 11. Johannesburg, the largest city, the game of football at the city stadium, which is currently being refurbished, new and more in time for the World Cup.

While the big event still 18 months, with a long and qualification process has already begun. South Africa is automatically entered the field of 32 teams, while the other 31 pages are still in the game. Qualifying matches began in August 2007 and ends in November 2009. The ceremony, in the space over the last 32 teams will be in December 2009.

Currently, various qualifying tournaments in the world. World Cup candidates compete for 13 points between the European countries, five African teams (excluding South Africa), four or five from South America, three or four times in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, but not slick, or in Oceania.

In Asia, Australia and South Korea at the top of the qualification in the relevant groups. In Europe, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, England, Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands, in groups. Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, are in good condition, in South America. Qualifying matches in Africa and North and Central America and the Caribbean have not yet begun.

After he finds and qualifying stage for the development of a ceremony in December 2009 in Cape Town on 32 World Championship participants will be divided into eight groups of four teams. Each team plays each team in the group in their group, and the two best teams (16 total) in the knockout stage, which in the period from June 26, 2009 and June 29. Round Robin group play, will take place from 11 June 25 June.

In the first round in the knockout stage, winners of eight groups of eight teams play a runner-UPS. From there, the rest of the tournament, single elimination. In the losers in the semifinals, but not to a place in the third place on July 10 in Port Elizabeth.

Italy is the champion, which defeated France 5-3 in penalty shootout in the 2006 title. Brazil, winner of the previous World Cup in 1994 and 2002, owns a majority of the five heads of the World Cup. Italy and Germany four, the host country in 2006, has three. Italy currently ranks third in the FIFA rankings, while Brazil the fifth largest in Germany, and the second. Spain is the highest rank of the team, while the other team in the Netherlands Top 5 in five countries, have to be serious candidates in South Africa.
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Manchester City turns to South Africa

There was some concern that the annual Vodacom challenge will not be held this year in South Africa of the FIFA Confederations Cup, but those fears proved unfounded, with the organizers of this challenge, confirming that the city of Manchester, the richest club in world football, went to South Africa in the Orlando Pirates and Chiefs of KAIZEN.

The city may be short some of the stars of the club, but players such as Robinho and Elano could be in Confederations Cup, and thus have free time between the stations during the Vodacom Challenge.

In September 2008, acquired the club in Abu Dhabi United Group Investment and Development Limited. In an instant has a way of breaking the rules in English football for the "Big Four 'of Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal.

The new owners of the club are extremely deep pockets. This was evident in the city are trying to pry the Brazilian midfield player Kaka from Milan for the fact that it would be a world record in the amount of 100 million pounds - more than R1 billion.

The involvement of cities in Vodacom problem is the first step in establishing the club as a global brand.

Last year, the city rivals "Manchester United" won the Vodacom Challenge, KAIZEN outplaying chapters in the final victory 4-0.

Although South Africa is located in the United In the past year, the city is ready to use the visit to the rainbow nation.
Price visit

According to the Telegraph, the price for the club visit to South Africa was £ 2 million. Maybe playing in Dubai for more money, but it was suggested that the city is waiting for cash in the pre-World Cup fever in South Africa.

Will there be an opportunity to call for the English Premier League season 2009/10. There is also an opportunity to make some progress with the active support of "Manchester United" in the region, in 2007, to 10 million strong.

The club, under Mark Hughes, will consist of three games against Chiefs and Pirates, with games that are in Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria.
Popular Destinations

South Africa in recent years have proved popular in Europe at the beginning, with similar weather and time zones, as attractive.

Among the clubs that South Africa over the past five years, Manchester United, Tottenham and Barcelona hot. Like Barca and United reached the semi-finals this season in the UEFA Champions League and could be included in the final.
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Win tickets to the Confederations Cup!

Get off the phone, and you can win tickets to the Confederations Cup for you and three friends: SMS "flag" to 41929 (R2 per SMS) or visit the website for mobile www.flythesouthafricanflag.mobi factors.

The contest is part of the flag football "in a national campaign for public support and excitement in anticipation of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 and World Cup 2010.

In the 2010 National Communication Association, of the organizations participating in a communication to the football mega-event in South Africa, aimed at the distribution of more than 47 million FOC South Africa through various campaigns, at a time when the World Cup begins in June 2010 .

"Our flag is a symbol of unity and pride, and we are playing a role, South African flag with pride, through the eyes of world on us," Margaret Dingalo International Marketing of South Africa, said before the election campaign over the past week.

"The FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 starts with less than 100 days and the tension is building," said Dingalo. "We must help the enthusiasm and patriotism, and recognition on the part of South Africa for Bafana Bafana and the organization as a whole."

Face-painted figures in South Africa with a flag t-shirts and makarapas, a football fan hat, which is unique in South Africa, delivery is free flags Tollgate houses, garages and airports across the country during the long Easter weekend.

For South African football a big brand of fish, an official of the campaign, Confederations Cup and World Cup much more than football, that "the possibility of life in South Africa and Africa as a whole.

"We are raising the flag of unity, unity at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup joyful, memorable event," said Fish. "Fly your flag and show the world the warmth and spirit of South Africa."

2010 members of the National Association of Communication include International Marketing SA tourism South Africa, FIFA World Cup 2010 Local Organizing Committee, Department of Culture and Art, South African Airways, with the pride of South Africa, as well as several other organizations, the private sector and civil society.
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2010: Another major hurdle is cleared

Take a bow, South Africa. Four free and fair democratic elections alone, and another important barrier in the way of FIFA World Cup 2010.

A tough election campaign, are often signs of political instability in the corruption trial Jacob Zuma is in the soul of the people, must now to regroup for the final preparations for the world's largest - event code, as well as a plan.

Project 2010 Category: Craig Urquhart About a year before the 2006 World Cup, the Germans were convinced that the tournament would be a failure. There were significant differences in the society, as well as a major initiative to unite the country.

Government, business and citizens come together for a global brand campaign that improving the economy, international investment and exciting tournament.

It is safe to say that South Africa is in a position similar to Germany at this stage of training, albeit for different reasons. But after several months of uncertainty and disagreement, can now count on the period of stability.

Zuma is fully aware of the divisions of the split in the ruling party African National Congress. As a result, it was found that South Africans that his party of the country.

As President, one of the urgent tasks facing the settlement of disputes in the bus Rapid Transit. In the first phase of the system was launched in Johannesburg before the Confederations Cup, but this initiative has been supported by many taxi drivers, who feel that their jobs and incomes at risk.

But Zuma has a connection with them, and said that he hoped to resolve any outstanding issues.

Through years of hard work by many role players, and many other problems in 2010 - in particular the stadium construction projects - are white. But in the next few months will be crucial to prepare for 2010.

Confederations Cup - curtainraiser a key element in the 2010 - to meet the needs spark a wave of patriotism that once again see a rainbow nation united cause.

At the end of the day, when the history of the FIFA World Cup 2010, Nelson Mandela will be remembered for the key role he played in obtaining the rights to the event, South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on many of the huge commitment of FIFA - and Mr. Jacob Zuma, chairman of the first African World Cup.
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2010 certificate in the amount of R25bn '

World soccer body FIFA, earning R25 billion (about $ 2.8 billion) from the television rights to broadcast the finals at the world championship in 2010 in South Africa.

This massive increase in the number of R22 billion, FIFA, during the last two World Cups, in the aggregate, TV director Niclas Ericson, FIFA said the briefing in Johannesburg on Monday.

FIFA also in 2010 for millions of fans on their mobile phones around the world.

FIFA spent an estimated R1.5 billion TV products to the world stone. But Erickson said he is counting on the audience a little more than 26 billion worldwide during the tournament in a month, as many pointed out that in Germany in 2006.

Ericson, said: "It is difficult to estimate the expected audience. If a country like China with 1.3 million people during the World Cup and then the audience up.

"But despite that, at the point of saturation, it is difficult to estimate how many people even in Africa. It depends on how well teams fare in Africa in the World Cup, but we hope that it will be approximately the same as in 2006 .

Ericson, FIFA said Africa would be better to decide before the end of 2010. "We have entered into an agreement with the African Union, radio, television rights in 41 countries in sub-Saharan Africa until the end of 2009. The dream would be that an African team to achieve the upper end of the year to increase the TV audience.

"We hope that support for Africa as a country on the continent is far in the World Cup, but we want to ensure that this event is, as many Africans as possible, because this is the case in Africa.

FIFA is now the issue at home with BA as the host broadcaster SABC and the official radio station. BA Francis Tellier Director also announced that all World Cup games on the phone in the world.

Tellier said: "Not everyone can become a TV screen when the game. Thus, we are able to ensure that the parties, results and updates, etc. will be in the mobile (mobile) phones. This is innovation, and we believe that well accepted. "

Tellier also said that the quality of emissions will be the largest in history. Instead of more than 25 cameras in Germany in 2006, events in 2010 will be at least 29 and up to 32 cameras in the past and the major parties.

FIFA Ericson TV crew travels to each of the participating teams and perform for all channels.

At the Confederations Cup would be tested in relation to television and telecommunications planning on track.

Ericson, said: "The Confederations Cup is selling well. We expect all stadiums to be filled. This event gives us the opportunity to see where we can improve and correct the errors, more than in the 2010 World Cup."
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About World Cup

From its humble beginning in the FIFA World Cup in 1930, became one of the most spectacular sporting events in the world. World Cup 2010 promises to be the world's largest sporting event ever. More than one billion people, it is expected that after a month long tournament between the world of Top 32 soccer playing nations.

The World Cup is the most important in international football and the FIFA (International Federation of Football Associations), the Governing Body of Sport.

The tournament is held every four years. The previous tournament was held in 2006 in Germany and Italy won the World Cup. 2010 was the first time the finals will be from African countries.

More than 160 teams participating in the regional (area), the qualifying round as one of the 32 teams taking part in the past.
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