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Johannesburg City
CAPACITY 94,700 people
ADDRESS Highway Soweto, Johannesburg

AFRICA South Africa is the most modern countries today, both economically, politically, and socially. Certainly as a former British colony of the newly independent in 1910 and became a republic in 1961, still a lot of imbalances and patchwork here and there. Modernization had not yet succeeded in touching the whole area of 1,221,037 square kilometers.

One of the most loaded region with modernization is Johannesburg. City of gold and diamond producer, who in the 19th century took the arrival of immigrant gold miners from all over the world, has now become the largest city in South Africa which is inhabited by people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

As a multiethnic city, inevitably, Johannesburg was forced to grow more rapidly to accommodate the various needs of the community. It also is encouraging the city flourished economically contributing 16 percent of the total income per capita countries. Not too much of this city have called the economic engine of South Africa and the South African benchmark progress.

Uniquely, although the status of large and modern city, this city still leaves room for natural beauty, culture, and history. No less than 2300 parks scattered in this city. This place still smells terciumdi natural and classic also strengthened by the existence of the museum museums, including the apartheid museum, Constitution Hill, and a number of the old city are still alive, such as Soweto.

In this Soweto, Soccer City Stadium stood. The stadium will mark a new history of South African football, because the stadium will be held this opening match and final 2010 World Cup South Africa. The city was given the honor that, because here also the rate of South African football team beat.

The pulse will be faster when the injection of adrenaline Soweto Derby, the duel between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chief held. As derby lasted, all the African football enthusiast turned into Soweto.

The fact that this city stands the two biggest clubs of South Africa and the fact that the city is filled with approximately 40 percent of the population of Johannesburg is one reason the World Cup main stadium was built at the spot and was named Soccer City.

Soccer City was first opened in 1989 with a seating capacity around 80,000 spectators. For the purposes of the 2010 World Cup South Africa, the stadium was renovated in 1989 and its capacity increased to 94,700 people. This stadium is the largest and grandest stadium in South Africa.

Given the architecture, the most magnificent stadiums in fact refused to take the form of a modern contemporary. But they go back to basics and tradition of their native culture.

This building takes the form of earthen pots Africa (calabash), which is shaped pumpkins. Outer wall of the stadium is a mosaic of colored fire and earth. Lighting circuits installed base around the outside wall of the bottom. Seeing the stadium from a distance at night, you like looking at a pot on the fire. The atmosphere will be more dramatic, when the mosaic layer was washed wall lights from the spotlight.

Soccer City surprises did not stop there. On the inside, tribune tribune-shaped and colored in a way that looks ten vertical black lines. Nine out of ten lines is a symbol of geographical and other nine stadiums that will be used as a World Cup event in 2010. While the tenth line is a symbolization of the Berlin Olympic Stadium, which is where the implementation of the final World Cup 2006 Germany.

With the grandeur and elegance in such a way, was proper and fitting didaulat stadium to begin and end the biggest football celebration first in mainland Africa.
Schedule of matches:
Group A Friday (11 / 6) 16:00 South Africa vs Mexico
Group E Sunday (14 / 6) vs Danish Dutch 13:30
Group B Wednesday (17 / 6) 13:30 Argentina vs South Korea
Group G Sunday (20 / 6) 20:30 Brazil vs. Ivory Coast
Group D on Wednesday (23 / 6) 20:30 Ghana vs. Germany
16 great Saturday (27 / 6) 20:30 1B vs 2A
Quarter-finals Friday (2 / 7) 20:30 W49 vs. W50
Final Sunday (11 / 7) 20:30 W61 vs. W62

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