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Fifa chief Blatter impressed with Cape Town 2010 stadium


Johannesburg (dpa) - Joseph Blatter, president of the world football body Fifa, said Monday he was "very impressed" with progress on Cape Town's 2010 World Cup stadium, which he visited on the second of a four-day visit.

Blatter and Fifa Secretary General Jerome Valcke visited the stadium site with Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille, premier of Western Cape province Lynne Brown and the nation's former president Frederick de Klerk, among others.

The 68,000-seat Green Point stadium, which is framed by Table Mountain, will host a semi-final match and other games. Delays in the start of construction last year had sparked concern it might not be ready on time, but Blatter said Sunday he was confident all ten stadia being built or upgraded would be ready.

The football boss is in South Africa mainly to take the political temperature ahead of next year's general elections, slated for April.

Tensions are running high between the leadership of the ruling African National Congress led by Jacob Zuma and the government led by President Thabo Mbeki. Zuma is the ANC's candidate to replace Mbeki as president after the election but some of his supporters want Mbeki to step aside before then.

On Sunday, Blatter sought to ease concerns about South Africa's ability to host a successful World Cup, saying after a meeting with Mbeki in Pretoria that organizers had his "100-per-cent" confidence.

Addressing the sceptics, Blatter said: "They have to admit the stadia will be ready, people will be well received and so on."

What was needed, instead, was a little more enthusiasm in South Africa, he said: "For the whole country to say , yes, let's go, let's do it."

On Tuesday, Blatter continues his tour in Johannesburg, where he will meet with former president Nelson Mandela, who was instrumental in getting the tournament to South Africa - the first African country to host it.

He will also visit the 94,000-seat Soccer City stadium in Soweto outside Johannesburg that will host the opening and closing matches

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OOPS the top pics is not part of the stadia but some of south africas landscape and scenery if you want to see them then reply to this post i will upload them

Halala Mzantsi, am so proud of you RSA, did someone say we will not manage to host 2010?

nice updates.

South Africa ! African Pride.
Dont eva belief anything they say we are ready for the world and if someone tell you that you're from the dark continent,tell them that in Africa the sun rises from the south and soon the hole continent will be bright again.Shine Africa shine!

Nelson

Construction has started on the roof of the new 2010 FIFA World Cup Green Point Stadium - a significant milestone for the project, which is on track for completion at the end of 2009.
The first components of the high-tech roof arrived by ship from Kuwait, and the first compression ring is now being erected.

The roof will be installed by September 2009.

City of Cape Town 2010 spokesperson Pieter Cronje said the start of the roof construction "is tangible proof of the progress with the construction, and the fact that we are now four days ahead of schedule and on track to deliver the finished stadium by 14 December 2009."
He added that the roof is the most expensive and significant sub-contract for the stadium project.

The R430-million contract for the roof was awarded to an international joint venture company formed by US-based Birdair and German-based Pfeifer in November 2007. This company is in turn sub-contracting to the stadium’s main building contractor, Murray & Roberts/WBHO.

The stadium roof will resemble an uneven bicycle wheel resting on 72 pillars, with an outer compression ring on the pillars, and an inner tension ring.

It has been designed in terms of FIFA guidelines and in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Record of Decision, making it a key design feature of the stadium. One of the main benefits is that the shape and materials used to construct the roof will deflect noise back into the bowl, leading to a reduction in the noise level of the stadium by about six decibels compared to the previous Green Point Stadium.

Noise levels and the height of the stadium were among the main concerns expressed by local residents and cited in the Environmental Record of Decision.

The roof, which will have a double parabolic shape, will not protrude above the supporting columns, reducing the overall height of the stadium.

It will also incorporate flood lighting for the pitch, thereby avoiding the need for tall and unsightly floodlighting masts.

The roof will be made of a translucent glass surface weighing 1800 tons, and a lower fabric covering, which is key to noise reduction.

Wind tunnel and acoustic tests were carried out on the roof in Germany.

It will also cover the bulk of spectators sitting in the stadium, which is important, given that the World Cup takes place during Cape Town's rainy season.

Meanwhile, the contract for the facade of the stadium has been awarded, and work is due to begin shortly.

Martin Pollack

2008/09/26

Latest on Soccer City which is the main Stadia where the final and openning games will be played,the stadium projected completion date is November 2009 but currently it is ahead of of time by six month so it means it should be ready before or during the confederation cup.Here are some of the pics that was taken a days ago

More of Soccer City,this stadium is located between Johanesburg city and Soweto

Hmmm,

I can say its feels good to be South African when you see such things. Lefatshe le tlile go bona matsetseleko a tlieleng go dirwa ke Afrika Borwa.

Viva Zuid Afrikaansche!!!!

The progress of the new 2010 World Cup venue could make many sceptics eat their words

AS A Green Point stadium sceptic, an invitation to visit the place was hard to resist.

Also, the omens were good: the sun was out in Cape Town for the first time that week, there was a guided tour starting at 2pm and I happened to have a free afternoon in the city. The planets seldom align so conveniently in the beautiful city.

On previous visits to Cape Town, the progress of the stadium, viewed from Main Road, seemed negligible and the Fifa information on the venue was plainly false. Green Point stadium is not a stone’s throw from the ocean (as world football’s governing body claims), neither is it a short walk from the city’s transportation hub. But that is Fifa for you: not to be trusted.

Misgivings about Green Point stadium as a venue for the 2010 World Cup are not part of Essop Pahad’s fevered imaginings, which have it that white South Africans are opposed to 2010. Rather they are based on the fact that there is an entirely suitable ground in Newlands, where Western Province play rugby, the use of which would save the Cape Town ratepayers a bundle of debt.

And there was also the rumour that Sepp Blatter had inflicted the location upon us during a helicopter flight over the city.

To hell with the cost, he was alleged to have implied, that is the place for your World Cup stadium. Anything that Blatter says should be viewed with suspicion but, with our football people falling all over the little man from Fifa, the die was cast.

Now that the cement has also been cast, there is no turning back. A visit, therefore, to the rising edifice was a chance to get the other side of the story.

The tour did not start auspiciously. The meeting point was hard to find in the confusion of a huge building site, the starting time was almost an hour overdue, compromising an early start to get to the WP game, and wellingtons would have been a nice recommendation with all the mud around from weeks of rain. But things improved as the tour progressed.

A video explaining the background, planning and progress was slick, informative — and encouraging. According to the film, a man with the trace of an Aussie accent is project director and some of the architects are German and they, I hope, are bringing some 2006 expertise to 2010.

There were live performances by a senior engineer, Francois van Niekerk, who confidently predicted that the stadium was ahead of schedule.

T eral Cullen is the local co-ordinator for the city’s 2010 project . She is passionate about areas that need beautification and, in a place famous for its complacency, there are many — as she pointed out. The station upgrade sounds especially appealing.

The real clincher, however, was in the bowels of the building itself. Standing in the middle of what will become a grass pitch by December next year, there was little doubt that Van Niekerk’s prediction of readiness by December 2009, two months ahead of schedule, is correct. In the 18 months since the first sod was turned, the progress has been impressive. The grass for the pitch is already growing at Stellenbosch .

The stands are nearing roof level, where a translucent mesh skin under a steel cable-and-truss structure will act as a luminous disc that will reduce noise and light pollution of the nearby suburbs (among the main reservations of ratepayers).

The stadium was designed not to detract from Table Mountain, one of the architects explained (as if that were possible), but he added that once the stadium was complete no postcard of the city would be complete without mountain and stadium.

After all that, am I converted? Probably, though it would be hard to say farewell to Newlands. And, without rugby, Green Point stadium will be a massive white elephant in what also appears to be a potentially beautiful urban park.
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Africa here are the latest pics of your stadiums for 2010 world cup,if anyone tells you South Africa is not ready tell them to go and kiss their granny's a@##%^!

Im starting with Soccer City the pride of Soweto,where the opening and the final will be played,Fifa want the keys for this stadium in November 2009 and it look like we are going to give them the keys in June.
Our African Pot where some of the best football will be cooked

SA the land of Steven Bantu Biko

Now lets go to Mandelas land Port Elisabeth better known this days Nelson Mandela Bay,windy cities,friendly city

PE the land of the XHOSA

The land of Govan Mbeki and his son Thabo,the land of Oliver Tambo

Cape Town Africas most beautiful city,in SA we dont Play we work

The feet of Africa,and we all know that without the feet Africa wont be able to stand up.

Cape Town also known as Mother city

Durban in KwaZulu Natal,Land of the worriors,land of the Zulus,Birth place of Jacob Msholozi Zuma

All the stadiums are on track on schedule and on time.World cup in South Africa will be a success

great pics RSA!
way to go SA!
cant wait for the tournament proper
just hope an Africa team will better the record of South Korea as a new Host
wonder which African country it will be