2010 World Cup Blog

The two newly completed venues for the World Cup in South Africa have passed their first test after matches were played at both stadiums.
The Cape Town stadium hosted a local derby between South African clubs Santos and Ajax Cape Town whilst the Peter Mokaba arena held a four team all day tournament.
18,000 spectators were eager [...]

South Africa’s final plans for the World Cup are beginning after two of the new stadiums will be opened this weekend to the public.
The 70,000 capacity Cape Town stadium and the 45,000 capacity Peter Mokaba stadium in Polakwane will each have a football match played in them in a couple of days to test out [...]

To all the soccer fans travelling to South Africa’s 2010 Soccer World Cup. If you attended Germany 2006 World Cup you may be looking for Fan Camps which buzz. 2010 Camp is the best kept secret in South Africa. This is a community initiative in the Maneleti Big 5 Game Reserve.
The 2010 Camp Project aims [...]

The South Africa World Cup organising committee have announced that the recent attack on Togo at the Africa Nations will not affect the staging of the World Cup in June.
Danny Jordaan, head of the committee, claimed that the terrorist attack on the Togo national team in Angola should not prompt concerns about the upcoming tournament [...]

South African authorities have claimed that they have plans in place to deal with the threat of a terror attack at the 2010 World Cup in June.
The reassurances were made after security at airports and on airlines were stepped up following the foiled Christmas Day bomb attack on the USA. Although South Africa is not [...]

Group H
Spain
Switzerland
Honduras
Chile
 
All eyes will be on Spain when the 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa at the beginning of June. The 2008 European Champions have never won the World Cup and are amongst the favourites to triumph in the summer. With a team containing stars all over the pitch, few would bet against [...]

Group G
Brazil
Ivory Coast
Portugal
North Korea
 
Out of all the groups drawn in Cape Town, South Africa, Group G was possibly the most fascinating with three teams tipped to go a long way in the tournament. Five times World Cup winners Brazil were placed with a Cristiano Ronaldo inspired Portugal and arguably the strongest African opposition in the [...]

Group F
Italy
Paraguay
New Zealand
Slovakia
 
Defending your title in any sport is never an easy task. However, 2006 World Cup winners Italy could not have asked for a much kinder group to begin the defence of their crown. The Azzurri should have no problems navigating out of a group containing minnows New Zealand and Slovakia. Only Paraguay are [...]

Group E
Netherlands
Denmark
Japan
Cameroon
 
With a large hoard of creative players at their disposal, very few would write the Netherlands off from going all the way at South Africa 2010. However, the Dutch have never actually won the biggest tournament in World football despite possessing some of the best players of all time throughout their history. A major [...]

Brazilian football fans could be forgiven for taking a disliking to someone they’ve probably never heard of after Friday’s World Cup draw.
During the draw I logged on to Twitter and saw a “Tweet” from moderately successful comedian Mark Watson saying: “It looks like the traditional easy route for Brazil.”. Just three minutes later he followed [...]