1. Picture 3:
Vuvuzela’ s
South Africa
2010 soccer
World Cup Picture 6:
2. Introduction
Information 1 from : Wikipedia
The 2010 world cup took place in South
Africa from the 11th June to the 11th July
2010. There were 32 participating Countries
and 10 stadiums that were used. In total, 64
matches were played and 145 goals scored
which would be about 2 goals per match. The
total attendance was 3 178 856 people which
was about 49 670 people per match. The top
scorers were Diego Forlan (who was also
the best player), Thomas Muller,
Wesley Sneijder and David Villa.
3. Participating Countries
32 countries qualified for After 6 weeks of
the world cup. There were eliminations and
8 pools of 4 teams and big upsets, only
only the top 2 teams in one team took the
each pool went through to trophy home.
the playoffs.
4. Soccer CityJohannesburg Johannesburg
Stadium,
Host city:
Johannesburg
We watched
one of the
Quarter finals
matches here.
This Stadium was made to look like a calabash (pumpkin) which are
grown in many rural areas
This is a
Soccer City picture of
during the
the
kick-off
match of the
Opening
2010 FIFA Ceremony.
World Cup The Closing
between Ceremony
South Africa was also
and Mexico held here.
5. Green Point Stadium, Capetown
This newly built Stadium is also known as Cape town Stadium. The stadium can
hold 66,005 people. Green Point Stadium was one of the two semi final venues
for the FIFA World Cup.
Host city:
Cape Town
6. Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban
Host city:
Durban
Also known as Durban Stadium. This is the stadium in the Area in
which I live. We went to 3 pool games here.
7. Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit
Nicknamed “The Giraffe Stadium” because the 18 roof supports have
been designed to look like the long necked Giraffes and the seating
looks like the Zebras skin. My friend Tayla’s Uncle designed this
Stadium.
Host city: Nelspruit
10. Yellow - a symbol for the natural resources e.g. gold.
White - peace and for the white people.
Red - bravery, strength & respect for the bloodshed from the war with the Zulu’s.
Blue – truth, loyalty and the open blue skies.
Green - hope, joy and love and for the land.
Black - the black population.
The Green “Y” shape represents the two Races coming together as one.
11. 2010 World cup mascot:
Zakumi
Zakumi was designed to look like a leopard
which is one of South Africa's “big Five “, ( 5
most popular Wild Animals. )
He wears green and gold which are the colours
of South Africa’s National sports teams.
ZA stands for South Africa And kumi means 10
which means South Africa in 2010.
12. Picture 4:
Vuvuzela
• This noise making, plastic,
brightly coloured trumpet
became very popular to all
football fans who could blow it.
They can come in all shapes,
sizes and colours.
Picture 3:
14. Johannesburg In the
stadium
Quarter final in the
Calabash(Johannesburg
Stadium), Uruguay vs. Ghana.
15. Picture 2:
36.8cm high.
4970 grams
The trophy Made from solid
18 carat gold.
which is nearly
5 kg. And the winners
were…………..
It represents
2 people
holding up
the world.
16. Conclusion
• South Africa hosted a very successful soccer
world cup and had many people come visit that
had never been there before. All the schools got
soccer fever and gave away soccer shirts and 5
weeks of no school. Every body started to love
soccer and want to play it all the time. The
whole of South Africa had changed and become
a soccer fever country. Even the radio stations
had a day set in which everyone would blow
their vuvuzela’ s at 12:00 to see if the rest of the
world could hear us. And every Friday,
EVERYONE would wear a soccer shirt.
17. Text Bibliography
• All the stadium pictures and some information:
http://www.ezzal.com/22957/blog/sports/south-africa-2010-world-cup-stadiums.html
• Text 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup
Picture Bibliography
• All the Stadium pictures and some Information:
http://www.ezzal.com/22957/blog/sports/south-africa-2010-world-cup-stadiums.html
• Picture 2:http://www.cup2010.info/trophy/trophy.htm
• Picture 3+4:http://www.buy-vuvuzela.com/buy-vuvuzela-online
• Picture 5:http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100711/world-cup-final-100711/
• Picture 6:http://thepodiyan.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifa-world-cup-20103d-hdtv-cell-
phone.html
• Sound: http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/anthem.htm