Sport in South-Africa

- Welcome to South Africa the night of Thursday, it was 32 and the last of next year's World Cup participants ready. Today, all the flags hoisted in Johannesburg.
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Ambassadørene from all the 32 countries met in the Soccer City in Johannesburg, where the opening ceremony and opening match in World Cup will take place 11 June next year.

Also, the final will be played there exactly one month later.

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World Cup participants in 2010
Algeria Argentina Australia Brazil Chile Denmark England France Côte d'Ivoire Ghana Greece Honduras Italy Cameroon Japan Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria North Korea Paraguay Portugal Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain South Africa South Korea Switzerland UK Uruguay USA South Africa has of course long been aware that the organizer. The first team that was clear through the qualification, Japan was early in the day 6 June. The last was Uruguay, which beat out Costa Rica in recent rematch tonight.

Brazil is ready for their World Cup number 19 - that is, they have participated in all. Germany / West Germany are included for 17 time, they have lost two.

Only seven countries have previously won the World Cup, and all of next year, too: Uruguay, Italy, (West) Germany, Brazil, England, Argentina, France.

World Cup Team includes only one debutant: Slovakia. But eight of the nations have participated only once before.

During the ceremony in Johannesburg was one for one of the 32 flags hoisted in front of the Football Association's building.

- They can not fail
Several of the ambassadors stated that they were convinced that South Africa is more than qualified to organize the world's second largest sports event, which for the first time ever to be held on the African continent.

- They can not fail. We can not fail, "said Cameroon's envoy, Kum G. Bezang.

All arenanene in the nine cities are finished or nearly finished when it still remains over half a year of opening. More than 650,000 tickets for the 64 games are already sold.

The draw of the induction groups will be held 4 December.