World Cup 2010 update
soccerbyives.net 5/30/2009 — BY DYLAN BUTLER Dr. Danny Jordaan, the CEO of the Local Organizing Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held a press briefing at the South African Consulate General in Manhattan Friday afternoon to give an update on South Africa's preparation for next year's competition. I was there and ...

One Year Until World Cup 2010
theoriginalwinger.com 6/10/2009 — “Workers hang a giant soccer shirt that reads one year to go to the 2010 soccer World Cup to be held in South Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, June 10, 2009″. Image/Story via Daylife

US As World Cup Fall Back: An Opinion
matchfitusa.com 7/9/2009 — The strike by construction workers in South Africa, which has halted progress on World Cup stadiums due for delivery ahead of next year's World Cup, has been big news in the last few days. While...

FIFA, We Have A Problem
rumorsandrants.com 7/9/2009 — Anyone remember during the 2006 World Cup in Germany how there were whispers that South Africa might not be ready to host its own World Cup by 2010? Concerns about construction delays, the political mess the country is in and an overall lack of security had most of the soccer world worried. ...

Cape Of Good Hope-ing To Get Out Alive
rumorsandrants.com 7/14/2009 — If you plan on going to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, understand this - you’re going to die. You’re going to get murdered or contract HIV and then die later. Either way, you’re dead. For the first time in the competition’s history, the World Cup will be played in Africa. And ...

UEFA World Cup Qualifying: Latest Group Standings after June 6 matches
the90thminute.com 6/6/2009 — It was a busy day of World Cup Qualifying matches in the UEFA Region with a few teams moving closer to an automatic qualification spot. England won at Kazakhstan, the Netherlands won at Iceland, and Denmark got a win at Sweden. With the win against Iceland, the Netherlands have no officially ...

South Africa vs West Indies Highlights - Super 8s T20 World Cup (2009), Match 17
crichotline.com 6/13/2009 — Watch cricket highlights - South Africa vs West Indies : Group F from the 2009 T20 World Cup - the Super 8s game. West Indies looking dangerous in this year ICC twenty20 World Cup. Last night West Indies thrashed the T20 Champions India with 7 wickets. Dwayne Bravo is the match winning ...

Satan’s Instrument? The Vuvuzela and Noisemaking in World Football
pitchinvasion.net 6/23/2009 — The current controversy over the vuvuzela at the Confederations Cup in South Africa is hardly the first debate about “artificial” noisemakers used by football fans. In different forms, their use has been common across the world for over a ...

Cost of World Cup begins to worry South Africa
blogs.reuters.com 7/21/2009 — When the initial estimate of World Cup stadium costs was made by South Africa, it was set at some R2-3 billion. That was at the time of the country’s success in winning the bid ahead of its fellow African competitors in 2004, some six years before the ...

The Confederations Cup Junket
pitchinvasion.net 6/2/2009 — Last month, I was one of a few US-based soccer bloggers approached by the International Marketing Council of South Africa offering a free, all-expenses trip to South Africa in June to cover the Confederations Cup. The Council is currently running ...

Argentina slump, Brazil and Chile steam ahead — ESPNsoccernet 6/11/2009
Argentina's World Cup fear of heights resurfaced on Wednesday when they lost 2-0 in Ecuador while Brazil and Chile both moved closer to a trip to South Africa with home wins.

Global Soccer: A World Cup Without Superstars? Unthinkable — NYT > Soccer 6/11/2009
The World Cup that kicks off in South Africa one year from now faces the real prospect of doing so without Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi on the fields.

Iraq's "Lions" eye crucial first Cup game (Reuters) — Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News 6/11/2009
* Meet hosts South Africa on Sunday

South Africa marks 1 year to World Cup (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News 6/11/2009
With the country's president kicking a soccer ball off a stand, South Africa began its one-year countdown to the World Cup at a nearly complete stadium overlooking Nelson Mandela's former Robben Island prison. "We have made it," ...

World Cup questions remain in South Africa (Yahoo! Sports) — Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News 6/11/2009
The one-year countdown to 2010 brought few answers to looming doubts about the first African host.