A 2010 World Cup Venue - Soccer City - Johannesburg, South Africa
S 26° 14.197 E 027° 59.117
35J E 598409 N 7097738
This is one of the venues for the FIFA World Cup to be held in 2010 in South Africa. The final match will be played in this stadium.
Waymark Code: WM51AX
Location: Gauteng, South Africa
Date Posted: 10/25/2008
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Soccer City can quite rightfully call itself the home of football in South Africa. In the mid 1980s, football officials came together to build the first international football stadium in the country and the construction was funded from the football fraternity's coffers.
Soccer City hosted the first mass rally of Nelson Mandela after his release in 1990. Thousands of mourners lamented Chris Hani's assassination at the stadium in 1993. It was also the venue for the 1996 CAF Africa Cup of Nations finals, with South Africa eventually triumphing.
It is also a neighbour to the home of the South African Football Association and its new headquarters, the SAFA House. The Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, as well as the FIFA offices, are currently being housed in SAFA House.
Soccer City will be the flagship stadium for the first FIFA World Cup™ in Africa. The design is unique and unusual as the outer part of the stadium is designed to resemble an African pot. About 40 percent of Joburg's population live in Soweto, in close proximity to Soccer City. This will make the stadium a hub of activity during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
It currently seats 80,000 people, but after its planned upgrade should seat 94,700.
(The above text was copied from the FIFA website.)
The coordinates are for a place where the stadium can be seen from the street. The public is not yet allowed in or close to the stadium
Which World Cup: 2010
Famous matches (optional):
Final match of 2010 World Cup.
Documentation that the stadium was used in a tournament: [Web Link]
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