Following inaugural board meeting at SAFA House in Johannesburg, the 2010 FIFA World Cup Legacy Trust is now in operation. The Legacy Trust, part of FIFA’s pledge to ensure that South Africans will continue to reap the benefits of hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup, will support a wide range of public initiatives in the [ Read More ]
Each of the 207 FIFA member associations will this year receive a further one-off bonus payment of USD 300,000 from world football’s governing body as part of FIFA’s Financial Assistance Programme (FAP). For the six confederations, this bonus will amount to USD 2.5 million each. This decision by the FIFA Executive Committee has been made [ Read More ]
FIFA announced that 400 clubs affiliated from 55 Member Associations around the globe are set to obtain a share of the benefits from the successful staging of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. On 14 March 2008 the FIFA Executive Committee agreed to set aside provisions of USD 40 million for the 2010 FIFA [ Read More ]
Success, pride and unity – three words which are being used by the people of South Africa to describe the effects that staging the 2010 FIFA World Cup has had on their country. These feelings are supported by the positive experiences of international fans who visited South Africa during the event, as highlighted in post-event [ Read More ]
Attensity Analysis of Social Media Indicates Holland Is Sentimental Favorite to Win Attensity Group, the leader in Customer Experience Management software applications that generate value from unstructured text, has issued its analysis of the sentiment expressed in social media about the World Cup finalists. This analysis, drawn from the full spectrum of social media (e.g., [ Read More ]
“Bafana Bafana are out of the World Cup but they won the hearts and minds of all South Africans and the whole world tonight,” said 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa (OC) CEO Danny Jordaan after South Africa’s final group stage match against France in Mangaung/Bloemfontein. South Africa won the match but it [ Read More ]
