subject: The Approaching of World-Cup [print this page] 2010 World Cup will be held in South Africa, between 11 June and 11 July 2010, and the 2014 World Cup will be held in Brazil.
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More than 74,000 South African football fans have attended the first match at Soccer City - venue for the World Cup final.
The rebuilt stadium hosted the South African cup final less than three weeks before the World Cup's opening match is played there. Johannesburg's Bidvest Wits beat Amazulu of Durban 3-0 in the match. Tickets sold out even though the match featured two of South Africa's less glamorous teams. Kick-off was delayed for 30 minutes because of the volume of traffic going to the football game and a rugby match in Soweto, reports the AFP news agency. The stadium, which is also known as the Calabash, is Africa's biggest football ground.
For the World Cup, its capacity will rise to almost 95,000 but this was reduced for its first match. President Jacob Zuma officially opened the stadium, which lies between Johannesburg and Soweto. It was the last of South Africa's 10 World Cup grounds to be unveiled.
This year's World Cup is being held on African soil for the first time.
Early World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The choice of location gave rise to controversies, a consequence of the three-week boat journey between South America and Europe, the two centres of strength in football. The decision to hold the first World Cup in Uruguay, for example, led to only four European nations competing.The next two World Cups were both held in Europe. The decision to hold the second of these, the 1938 FIFA World Cup, in France was controversial, as the American countries had been led to understand that the World Cup would rotate between the two continents. Since the 1958 FIFA World Cup, to avoid future boycotts or controversy, FIFA began a pattern of alternating the hosts between the Americas and Europe, which continued until the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The 2002 FIFA World Cup, hosted jointly by South Korea and Japan, was the first one held in Asia, and the only tournament with multiple hosts. In 2010, South Africa will become the first African nation to host the World Cup. The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be hosted by Brazil, the first held in South America since 1978, and will be the first occasion where consecutive World Cups are held outside Europe.
More than 2.5 million tickets have been sold, out of three million available. More than a million have been bought by South Africans.
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