The Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality has declared its readiness to host thousands of soccer fans and teams alike during next year's FIFA World Cup.
THE 3rd CAF Medical Congress organised by the continental football body starts this morning at Laico hotel in Kigali.
Close your eyes and try to imagine the scenes of jubilation across Africa if a team from the continent were to win the 2010 World Cup.
NEW Zealand are fast-becoming the darlings of world football. Like a young brother that is not big enough to be threatening but fun to play with, every other country wanted to have them in their World Cup groups.
The success of the 2010 Final Draw is a glimpse of the flair and professionalism which South Africa will deliver to the world during the World Cup, says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.
In what appears to be a repeat of the 1994 and 2002 editions of the FIFA World Cup, Nigeria last night was drawn alongside Argentina, South Korea and Greece in Group B for the global football fiesta to be hosted by South Africa next year.
HOSTS South Africa got the fair pairing that should give Bafana Bafana hope, at least to come out of the group stages, but the Elephants of Ivory Coast were thrown into the deep end of the Pool of Death at the 2010 World Cup draw in Cape Town last night.
AFRICAN teams will have to play out of their skins at home in June next year if there is to be an African flavour to the 2010 World Cup knock-out stages.
Experience from their debut 2006 World Cup finals is expected to put the Black Stars in a good stead when next year's showpiece kicks off, says Ghana Football Association President, Kwesi Nyantakyi.
South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana face a difficult first round in the 2010 World Cup soccer finals, while Nigeria will contend with familiar opponents and Cameroon can probably count themselves luckier than their African counterparts.
Although the 2010 World Cup is still six months away, Cape Town has hosted the first formal gathering of the candidates for two World Cups almost a decade away.
As the 2010 Soccer World Cup approaches, calls for the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa have been renewed.
Nigerian Ambas-sador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Garba Aminchi, has debunked insinuation that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adu's health has worsened within the past two days.
Friday 11 June
The 2010 Final Draw has produced some interesting results which saw South Africa being drawn in the same group as 1998 champions France.
Soccer coaches have welcomed the 2010 Final Draw schedule, promising that each team will perform their best during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The 2010 Final Draw is currently underway at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, where the tournament schedule for 2010 FIFA World Cup will be drawn.
Plans by the Western Cape provincial administration to host a party in the township of Gugulethu to celebrate the Fifa 2010 World Cup Final Draw appears to have been red carded by Fifa at the last minute because they allegedly don't want competition for the party they have planned in the inner city.
AFRICANS are renowned for their flamboyant and colourful way of celebrating when demonstrating their passion for the beautiful game. Those that have found themselves in Cape Town have encountered unmatched sporting fever and euphoria that is anticipated to reach fever pitch during the 2010 FIFA World Cup draw at the Cape Town International Conventional (CTICC) today.
Former Chairman of the then Nigeria Football Association, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima and former Secretary General in the association, Alhaji Sani Toro yesterday said Nigeria's Super Eagles are not a weak team as being peddled by some individuals.
Nigeria Football Federation has assured Nigerians that the Super Eagles will survive at the Angola 2010 Nations Cup, where they have been handed a difficult draw.
Picture this, Spain, USA, Ivory Coast and France drawn in the same group. Or let's say, Germany, Mexico, Cameroon and Portugal. Or further still England, Japan, Ghana and Serbia.
Excitement has gripped Capetonians and the rest of the world ahead of this evening's highly anticipated 2010 FIFA World Cup Final Draw.
International football icon David Beckham has given Cape Town and South Africa the thumbs up for next year's World Cup.
Come Friday, 4 December, all eyes of the football world will be in South Africa at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
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