2010 Fifa World Cup

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The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA Soccer World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. This one month period of year 2010 year will reveal the hottest action in the world of football as nations compete in the most glorious soccer tournament to achieve the highest honour in the world of soccer. This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa beat Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process.

A total of 200 teams entered the race for one of the 31 places at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. The draw for the finals will take place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.

In fifa wc 2010 Italy are the defending champions, and secured qualification for the final tournament on 10 October 2009.

According to some news floating around the Blogosphere and over some other sites like Mirror.co.uk, American R&B singer/songwriter/producer AKON might be recording for the Official 2010 Soccer World Cup Theme song.FIFA is still to announce its pick for the Official Soccer World Cup Anthem.

The official slogan - Ke Nako. Celebrate Africa's Humanity - was revealed during the worldwide broadcast of preliminary draw by the chairman of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee South Africa. Ke Nako means simply It's time. Stay tuned to 2010 Fifa WC.com for the latest on world cup of soccer 2010.

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2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup Interesting Facts

- The world cup soccer is the biggest soccer tournament in the world and is held every 4 years in a different host country.

-Except Brazil all the other winners - Uruguay (30), Italy (34), England (66), Germany (74), Argentina (78)and France (98) - have won the World Cup when they were the host nation.

- Hosts Uruguay won the first World Cup in 1930. Few European teams took part since the voyage had to be undertaken by boat.

- In the World Cup Finals in 1978, Ramon Quiroga, a goalkeeper playing in a game for Peru was booked for a foul in the opponent's half of the field.

- In 2002, Germany's Oliver Kahn became the first goalkeeper to win the Most Valuable Player of the World Cup.

- From the year 1962 to 1996, the World Cup was won alternatively by the Europeans and South Americans.

- The Brazilian star player Ronaldo, became the all-time highest goal scorer in World Cup events in the year 2006, when he outnumbered the German legend 'Gerd Müller'.

-India pulled away from the 1950 World Cup because the players were not allowed to play without shoes.

-Italian striker Giuseppe Meazza's 'playing shorts' fell down when he was taking a penalty shot in a semifinal match in the 1938 World Cup.

-World cup soccer 2010 is expected to be even bigger than 2006 world cup in terms of generating revenues.

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Soccer World Cup 2010 - Facts

Around 2.72 million tickets will be sold.
32 teams with an average entourage of around 50 people per team.
Approximately 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa will witness 10,500 international media and 5000 international VIPs.
Around 500 FIFA officials will be involved.

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