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11th june - 11th july 2010 Trip of a LifetimE Experience the 2010 World Cup of Soccer in South Africa! Cheer on your favorite country at the most popular sporting event in the World. Packages including 2010 World Cup Tickets can be purchased to every FIFA World Cup match including any round-robin or playoff game! South Africa has hosted numerous major international events - but the Football World Cup is in a class of its own. Come 2010, the eyes of millions of visitors and billions of TV viewers will be focused on the southern tip of Africa. Read more>> Customize your own 2010 World Cup Soccer Getaway including guaranteed tickets to see any province(s) of your choice and first class accommodations ideally located to soak in the culture, nightlife, and many sights of South Africa. Get ready for a once-in-a-lifetime World Cup Soccer experience that you will never forget! Contact us to let us know which province(s) you would like to arrange a guaranteed 2010 world cup ticket package for and get to the head of the line for tickets!
World Cup stadiums announced The 10 stadiums that will be used for the FIFA Soccer World Cup in 2010 have been announced. There will be five new stadiums, while five existing stadiums will be upgraded for the world’s most popular sporting event. Three existing stadiums in South Africa’s major metropolis, Gauteng, will be upgraded. These are Soccer City (FNB stadium), Ellis Park in Johannesburg, and Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. The Royal Bafokeng stadium in North West will be upgraded, as will Vodacom Park in Mangaung (Bloemfontein) in the Free State. Five new stadiums will be built or rebuilt. In Limpopo, the Peter Mokaba stadium in Polokwane will host 2010 games. New stadiums will be built at Mbombela in Mpumalanga, and in the Nelson Mandela Metro (encompassing Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape. Kings Park stadium in Durban will be rebuilt for the event, becoming a multi-sports facility. NEW stadium unveiled in Durban and the FIFA HQ have been announced as well. In the Western Cape, Cape Town’s Green Point stadium will be rebuilt, becoming a "totally new" multi-purpose sports facility complete with a dome that can be opened and closed. The dome is necessary for Cape Town’s unpredictable weather.
Pule "Ace" Ntsoelengoe - Steve Mokone - Jomo Sono - Kaizer Motaung - Lucas Radebe - Doctor Khumalo
Football - or soccer, as we call it - is the most widely played sport in South Africa, with its traditional support base in the black community. For many South Africans the country's proudest sporting moment came when we won the Africa Cup of Nations on home turf in 1996 - having failed even to qualify for the previous cup. Soccer is intensely followed, and the quality of the local game keeps improving - as demonstrated by the increasing number of South African players-in-exile among the glamorous European clubs. The national football team, Bafana Bafana - "The Boys" - may not have progressed beyond the first round of the 2002 World Cup, but five goals, one win, one draw and a 3-2 thriller against Spain did more than erase the disappointment of the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations in Mali - it confirmed South Africa's arrival as a force in world football. Local teams, organized in a national league plus a plethora of knock-out cups, are followed with the same passion as in many other countries, by paint-daubed, costumed, whistling and cheering fans. Mercifully, the country has been spared the spectre of football hooliganism. Soccer was the first of the country's three major sports - the other two being cricket and rugby - to fully integrate. Today there is a good mix of players of all colors playing in the Premier Soccer League, the national team and other less glamorous sides. There's probably no quicker way to "break the ice" with the South African man on the street than to demonstrate some knowledge of local soccer. To help you improve your conversational skills, here's a crash course on the country's most important teams and competitions.
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