Host City - Johannesburg - 2010 FIFA World Cup Stadiums (sitios de interés)
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Gauteng Province will play host to Africa´s greatest football show yet, the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ , in South Africa from the 11th June - 11th July, and fittingly it starts and ends in Egoli (Johannesburg), the ´City of Gold´. Africa´s wealthiest city and Gauteng´s financial powerhouse. Host city Jo´burg or Jozi, as it´s called by the locals, typifies modern South Africa; its struggle history is legendary, all 11 official languages are spoken here and its residents come from every corner of the globe. It´s the home to host stadium Ellis Park, where South Africa won the 1995 Rugby World Cup; and Premier League-based club Bidvest Wits, known as the ´Clever Boys´ because their home ground is Wits University. Visiting sports fans can catch cricket matches at Wanderers Stadium; bet at Turfontein Racecourse; and tee-off at one of many superb golf courses; or cheer boxing bouts at Emperor´s Palace or Carnival City in the east; and motor-heads get top-class motor sport action at Kyalami Race Track.
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Close to Johannesburg, the township city of Soweto has been at the core of football development in South Africa since pre-apartheid days. National team Bafana Bafana (The Boys) and the South African Football Association´s (SAFA) head quarters are situated at host stadium, Soccer City (FNB Stadium). Two of the country´s most popular teams, Kaiser Chiefs and Orlando Pirates and football legends Lucas Radebe and Jomo Cosmos team boss, Jomo Somo all hail from here. ´Footie´ fans can stay in a 5-star hotel or a township B & B (the latter comes highly recommended), visit museums, street markets, spaza shops (informal trading stores) and the new Maponya Mall. Boxing and marathon running is extremely popular here; but a must-do in this football-crazy city, is lunch at a local shebeen (tavern) - the beer flows, the local specialities are delicious and the atmosphere around the game on screen is electric; and while you´re discovering this extraordinary township, feel free to join in an informal football match - everyone here speaks the language of the beautiful game.