South Africa’s stadiums for 2010, very close to being ready
September 30, 2009 by Bumeral sports news
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JOHANNESBURG, Sep. 30, 2009 .- The FIFA and the South African Local Organizing Committee (SALOC) for the 2010 World said Wednesday that the ten stadia to be used during the tournament are ready or near pregnant .
“We will attend on 4 December to draw the World Cup in Cape Town, with full confidence that everything will be ready,” he said Wednesday at a news conference in Johannesburg, Danny Jordaan, chief executive of the local organizing committee.
Jordaan statements occur after the inspection of newly constructed five stadiums to be used during the World Cup in 2010 by a group of 50 experts from FIFA and the SALOC.
“Having to travel 4 thousand miles in six days to inspect the stadiums, experts have concluded that preparations are on track for its construction is completed later this year,” said the head of the delegation SALOC, Dereck Blanckensee.
Although the local official said there were no major issues that concern them could not specify the exact date that a definitive end all World Cup stadiums.
According to the report of FIFA, all the stadiums you have visited the delegation: the Nelson Madela, Port Elizabeth, the Green Point, Cape Town, the Mbombela, Nelspruit, Soccer City, Johannesburg and Durban and Polokwane, are less than 10 percent be completed.
The director of the Office in South Africa FIFA Ron Delmont said he was “very impressed with what has been achieved to date.”
“Apart from the construction of the stadiums, we are also pleased the local organizing committee, with the cities to host the FIFA World Cup and we work together with a common vision on the conclusion of the event,” he noted Delmont.
The delegation, composed of experts in diverse fields, including transportation, logistics, security, protocol and publicity, ended on Wednesday its inspection of the stadiums.
The last visit was at Soccer City, located just outside the heavily populated neighborhood of Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg, which will celebrate the opening and closing matches of the 2010 World Cup.
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