The World Cup 2010 South Africa

<h1>The World Cup 2010 South Africa</h1><strong>Author: <a title="Tyler Long" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/tyler-long/285254.htm">Tyler Long</a></strong><br /><p>The <strong>FIFA World Cup</strong>, occasionally called the <strong>Football World Cup</strong>, but usually referred to simply as the <strong>World Cup</strong>, is an international football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of <em>Fédération Internationale de Football Association</em> (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, because of World War II.</p> <p>The last fifa world cup in 2006 was a great tournament took place in Germany and all nations participated well and world cup soccer reached new heights. The 2006 World Cup trophy was won by Italy. Italy beat France on penalties after the match finished 1–1 after extra time. Zinedine Zidane was sent off in his last ever match, for a headbutt on Marco Materazzi.</p> <p>Now in 2010, again the football teams will meat each other after qualifying for the world cup in South Africa by playing the Qualifying rounds. Almost all the 32 teams are finalized encluding:</p> <h3>Hosts</h3> <ul> <li>South Africa</li> </ul> <h3>African Qualifying Group</h3> <ul> <li>Ghana</li> <li>Ivory Coast</li> </ul> <h3>Asian Qualifying Group</h3> <ul> <li>Japan</li> <li>Australia</li> <li>South Korea</li> <li>North Korea</li> </ul> <h3>European Qualifying Group</h3> <ul> <li>England</li> <li>Netherlands</li> <li>Spain</li> <li>Serbia</li> <li>Italy</li> <li>Denmark</li> <li>Germany</li> </ul> <h3>South American Qualifying Group</h3> <ul> <li>Brazil</li> <li>Paraguay</li> <li>Chile</li> </ul> <h3>North and Central America Qualifying Group</h3> <ul> <li>United States</li> <li>Mexico </li> </ul> <p>The preparations of the World Cup are going on these days, An inspection tour, including members of the Local Organising Committee and over 50 operational experts from FIFA have recently completed a tour of South Africa. During the tour, they visited the five newly built 2010 stadiums in Cape Town's Green Point Stadium, Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth's Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Nelspruit's Mbombela Stadium, Polokwane's Peter Mokaba Stadium and Johannesburg's Soccer City Stadium, and they are quite satisfied with the management in South Africa.</p> <p><strong>Ticket4Football.com</strong> is the most specialized and fully dedicated <a href="http://www.ticket4football.com/">football ticket</a> website offering the best place to buy football tickets for all the football matches because you can buy your favorite <a href="http://www.ticket4football.com/world-cup-football-tickets.html">World Cup tickets</a> of your favorite football match/team online through a secured and guaranteed online booking system.</p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br /><p>Crazy about football...</p><p>Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/">ArticlesBase.com</a> - <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/football-articles/the-world-cup-2010-south-africa-1458990.html" title="The World Cup 2010 South Africa">The World Cup 2010 South Africa</a></p>

The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, because of World War II.

The last fifa world cup in 2006 was a great tournament took place in Germany and all nations participated well and world cup soccer reached new heights. The 2006 World Cup trophy was won by Italy. Italy beat France on penalties after the match finished 1–1 after extra time. Zinedine Zidane was sent off in his last ever match, for a headbutt on Marco Materazzi.

Now in 2010, again the football teams will meat each other after qualifying for the world cup in South Africa by playing the Qualifying rounds. Almost all the 32 teams are finalized encluding:

Hosts

South Africa

African Qualifying Group

Ghana
Ivory Coast

Asian Qualifying Group

Japan
Australia
South Korea
North Korea

European Qualifying Group

England
Netherlands
Spain
Serbia
Italy
Denmark
Germany

South American Qualifying Group

Brazil
Paraguay
Chile

North and Central America Qualifying Group

United States
Mexico

The preparations of the World Cup are going on these days, An inspection tour, including members of the Local Organising Committee and over 50 operational experts from FIFA have recently completed a tour of South Africa. During the tour, they visited the five newly built 2010 stadiums in Cape Town's Green Point Stadium, Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth's Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Nelspruit's Mbombela Stadium, Polokwane's Peter Mokaba Stadium and Johannesburg's Soccer City Stadium, and they are quite satisfied with the management in South Africa.

Ticket4Football.com is the most specialized and fully dedicated football ticket website offering the best place to buy football tickets for all the football matches because you can buy your favorite World Cup tickets of your favorite football match/team online through a secured and guaranteed online booking system.

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