2010 Soccer World Cup start date

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Fifa announced that the 2010 Soccer World Cup will start on June 11 2010 and finish on July 11 2010, and has granted South Africa an automatic berth as the host nation.

Fifa's executive committee decided to maintain the qualifying set-up used in Germany, with a berth for the host country plus five other Africa teams, five European region qualifiers, five Asian and Oceania teams, and a total of eight for South America and the Central American region.

Nothing has been changed, the decision effectively gives Africa one extra team in 2010 and Europe one less, although that regional balance is likely to change again in subsequent World Cup events.

Africa, without South Africa, will again combine qualifying for the African Nations Cup from October 2007 with World Cup qualifiers.

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With anticipation growing ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™, the official Match Schedule has been released. To find out where the games will be played in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Mangaung/Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Rustenburg, Tshwane/Pretoria between 11 June and 11 July 2010.

See http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/index.html

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2 finals tickets up for grabs... wud prefer a local sale...
email ryan.wilsonjr@yahoo.com

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For anyone travelling as a Fan group looking for a Soccer Safari Camp in greater Kruger, we would highly recommend this community camp. They have come up with a fantastic concept which is totally geared for soccer supporters. It would be worth finding out more or even doing a special feature on them.

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If anyone has more details about 2010 Camp, we would be very interested to spend a week safari there.

I believe that this is a great place to get our wildlife fix if we're travelling all the way to Africa.

The package that they offer sounds fantastic.

Ben, Australia

[Dirk]

For those who travel by road between venues:

There are game farms all over the Northern, Northwest and Freestate provinces but you will hardly see wildlife from the main routes as these roads will be extremely busy with no or little opportunity to stop.

Apart from the main roads there are tarred secondary roads between towns which can be used with little difference in distance.

As alternative you may take a map, identify and travel these roads, stop when you see animals and enjoy a part of real Africa. Game farms can usually be identified by higher, 2 meter, fences.

Dirk