Stadiums that will Host International Soccer Team 2010
Stadium Green Point in Cape Town
Capacity: 70 000
One of the few new stadiums built for the World Cup 2010, was named after the suburb in which it is located. Built on the site of the old stadium of the same name, a new "Green Point" is situated at the foot of Signal and has a short passage from the coast. (Gianluigi Geurcia, Stephane De Sakutin / AFP � Getty Images) (Gianluigi Geurcia, Stephane De Sakutin / AFP - Getty Images)
The stadium "Nelson Mandela Bay", Port Elizabeth
Capacity: 49 500
New high-tech stadium opened June 7, 2009. The first sporting event held here June 16, 2009 - it was a match of rugby.
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Stadium Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg (also known as "Coca Cola Park")
Capacity: 60,000
First built in 1928, this stadium for rugby was demolished and rebuilt in 1982. It is named in honor Dzh.D.Ellisa - Board member of Johannesburg. It is home stadium of FC "Orlando Pirates"
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Stadium Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
Capacity: 50,000
Originally built in 1906 and significantly updated in 1977, the stadium has undergone minor changes since then. It is named after Robert Owen Loftus Versfelda, who according to legend, organized in Pretoria to football. Here trains FC "Sundowns".
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Stadium Mbombela, Nelspruit
Capacity: 40,000
The brand new stadium, built specially for the 2010 World Cup. Despite the strike the workers and the problems with the ground, the stadium is ready to receive guests. To give the stadium an African atmosphere, all the seats were painted in a zebra pattern.
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Stadium Free State, Bloemfontein
Capacity: 45,000
Originally built in 1952. Then, to the Confederations Cup in 2009, has been updated. In anticipation of CHMF 2010 in South Africa is massive urbanization. (Stephane De Sakutin / AFP � Getty Images) (Stephane De Sakutin / AFP - Getty Images)
Stadium Peter Mokaba, Pietersburg
Capacity: 40,000
The stadium was built on the site of an existing sports complex. It is named in honor of Peter Mocabee - a political activist during the apartheid era and a member of the African National Congress.
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Stadium Royal Bafokeng, Rustenburg
Capacity: 42,000
Built in 1999, the stadium is named in honor of the people of the tribe Bafokeng Stadium. To satisfy the standards of the stadium World Cup 2010, there were some changes made.
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Stadium Moses Mabhida, Durban
Capacity: 70,000
This stadium was built specially for the World Cup in 2010 at the site of the old stadium "Kings Park", demolished in 2006. The stadium has an arch, similar in design to the new stadium "Wembley Stadium". The stadium is named in honor of the Secretary General of the South African Communist Party.
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Stadium Soccer City, Johannesburg
Capacity: 94,700
Built in 1987, the first international stadium in South Africa is the largest among those that will host matches of World Cup 2010. This stadium is "seen" the first mass rally since the release of Nelson Mandela. At this stadium will take the first game and the final. Among the major changes: an increase in the upper tier to add seats and add 99 more suites (in the general account at the stadium suites, 184).
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