Cities and venues that host the FIFA 2010 World Cup matches
Cities and venues that host the FIFA 2010 World Cup matches
Host nation South Africa is gearing up for the FIFA World Cup 2010. The event will be for about a month from June 11, 2010 to July 11, 2010.
The host is looking forward to take the sport to further heights especially in their country. There will be 10 grounds for hosting the actual World Cup matches and these are spread over the 10 cities in the nation.
Johannesburg, the financial capital of South Africa has 2 grounds that will be venues for world cup matches:
Soccer City has a crowd holding capacity of 94,900
Ellis Park can hold 62,000 members
Durban, the port city of South Africa has Durban Stadium which will be the venue for semi finals. The stadium has a seating capacity of 70,000.
Cape Town has Green Point Stadium which will be hosting one semi finals. The ground has a capacity to hold about 69,000 soccer fans.
Pretoria, has the nation’s oldest stadium the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, which is a chosen venue for rugby as well as football matches. The ground can hold 50,000 spectators.
Port Elizabeth has Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium which is indeed a newly built one and dedicated to soccer matches. The ground can hold about 48,000 spectators.
Bloemfontein has the Free State Stadium which will hold World Cup finals match. The match will be a feast to the local diehard soccer fans. The stadium can hold 45,000 people.
Polokwane: is another city that hosts world cup matches in the Peter Mokaba Stadium which has a capacity of holding 46,000 spectators.
Nelspruit with its Mbombela Stadium, a newly built one will host some of the FIFA World Cup 2010 matches. The ground has a capacity of about 44,000 people.
Rustenburg with the Royal Bafokeng Stadium is another city that hosts world cup matches. The stadium has a capacity of around 42,000.
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Top Scorers of the Champions League 2009/10
Top Scorers of the Champions League 2009/10
There are no prizes for guessing the top scorer of the Champions League it is none other than Christiano Ronaldo who is the also the FIFA World Player of the year 2008. Ronaldo has scored six goals for Real Madrid so far in the Champions League.
Ronaldo is the most feared opponent because of his ability to beat any defender with mind-blowing pace and his powerful free kicks are his major assets apart from being the richest soccer player in the world.
Manchester United’s Michael Owen stands second top scorer with four goals and he is one of the dangerous strikers in game of soccer. Milos Krasic follows Owen’s from CSKA Moscow with four goals and he is also the member of Serbian National team.
Milos is the best the attacking midfielder and most certainly CSKA Moscow is more than proud to own this player. VfL Wolfsburg’ Edin Dzeko also has four goals to his credit in the Champions League.
The above-mentioned are the top scorers of the Champions League as of now and there are players such as Didier Drogba and Nicholas Anelka from Chelsea with three goals and the rest to share the same number of goals are: Adrian Mutu and Alberto Gilardino from Fiorentina, Miralem Pjanic from Lyon, Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal, Radamel Falcao and Hulk from Porto and Alan Dzagoev from CSKA Moscow.
New iron grooves making a difference on PGA Tour
The small crowd far down the eighth fairway could see John Daly, just not where his golf ball was headed.
Daly is hard to miss these days, even from more than 300 yards away—not because he has lost 45 kilograms (100 pounds), rather the colorful prints he wears, some that look like a gum ball machine.
On this day at the Sony Open, the gallery was curious to see whether players would go at the green more than 450 yards away with a stiff wind at their backs. Daly’s tee shot sailed over the trees and just through the fairway. Next was Bubba Watson, even longer off the tee, and his drive stopped in the short grass about 70 yards short of the green.
So much for that notion of playing it safe this year.
While one hole—especially those two players—is not the best sampling of strategy on the PGA Tour, two weeks into the new year did little to support the theory that players will give up distance for accuracy because of V-shaped grooves now required in irons.
