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There
will be ten venues in South Africa to be
used for the World Cup include:
Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban,
Johannesburg (two), Nelspruit, Polokwane,
Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, and Rustenburg.
WORLD 2010 CUP IN
SOUTH
AFRICA The
FIFA World Cup is the football (soccer)
world championship, contested by men's
national football teams, and organized by
FIFA, the international governing body for
football. The championship cycle
culminates every four years in a finals
tournament to decide which country's men's
football team will be awarded the FIFA
World Cup title. The 2010 FIFA World Cup
will take place in South Africa. FIFA
decided to award an African nation the
opportunity to host the World Cup as a
recognition of the development of football
on this continent. South Africa will
become the sixteenth country, and the
first-ever African country, to host World
Cup matches. Only the host nation is
given an automatic berth and all other
teams, including the defending champion,
have to qualify. There will be ten venues
in South Africa to be used for the World
Cup include: Bloemfontein, Cape Town,
Durban, Johannesburg (two), Nelspruit,
Polokwane, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, and
Rustenburg...The
first World Cup to be hosted in Africa
will provide tremendous business
opportunities for the travel and tourism
industry of South Africa in particular and
the African Continent in general. Up to
five million tourists (with many from the
African Continent) are expected to visit
South Africa during the month-long
sporting event and the Government of South
Africa has committed fifty billion dollars
(375 billion rand) in development projects
for this effort. South Africans firmly
believe that the World Cup will not only
put their country on the global eye but
can point a spotlight on issues such as
poverty alleviation and economic
diversification by involving all groups in
society. South Africans also realize that
it will face major logistical challenges
in hosting the world's biggest sporting
event &endash; for instance &endash;
airports will have to be upgraded and the
capacity for additional hotel rooms
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