June/July 2010 SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE | Team profi les | Star players | National hopes | South Africa’s long journey | Leaving a legacy | Broadcast innovations | From Montevideo to Johannesburg | Meet the referees | Team nicknames TIME FOR AFRICA The 2010 FIFA World Cup™ is fi nally here! EDITORIAL CELEBRATING HUMANITY Dear members of the FIFA family, Finally it has arrived. Not only is the four-year wait for the next FIFA World Cup™ almost over, but at last the world is getting ready to enjoy the fi rst such tournament to be played on African soil. Six years ago, when we took our most prestigious competition to Africa, there was plenty of joy and anticipation on the African continent. But almost inevitably, there was also doubt and scepticism from many parts of the world. Those of us who know Africa much better can share in the continent’s pride, now that South Africa is waiting with its famed warmth and hospitality for the imminent arrival of the world’s “South Africa is best teams and their supporters. I am convinced that the unique setting of this year’s tournament will make it one of the most waiting with its memorable FIFA World Cups. famed warmth and Of course we will also see thrilling and exciting football. But the fi rst-ever African World Cup will always be about more than just hospitality, and I am the game. In this bumper double issue of FIFA World, you will fi nd plenty of information on the competition itself, the major stars convinced that the and their dreams of lifting our famous trophy in Johannesburg’s unique setting of this spectacular Soccer City on 11 July. But you will also read about our activities off the pitch, and how FIFA is continuing to play year’s tournament an active role both in developing football and contributing to more general social improvement programmes – particularly will make it one of right now in Africa but also around the world. the most memorable Those efforts will of course continue after the fi nal whistle has blown, at which time we shall refocus our attention on our FIFA World Cups.” next set of competitions, starting just two days later with the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Germany. The work of course is never fi nished, but occasionally we can pause to enjoy the fruits of that labour, none of which are more rewarding than the FIFA World Cup itself. Whether you are lucky enough to be in South Africa, or are one of the devoted millions tuning in from distant shores, I wish you a tournament that is fair, exciting, spectacular and, above all, truly African. Joseph S. Blatter, FIFA President FIFA WORLD I JUNE/JULY 2010 3 INSIDE THIS ISSUE 64 6 10 48 VIEW NEWS FOCUS SUMMARY 6 10 64 156 CAPE TOWN, SHOWTIME TEAM PROFILES ASSOCIATIONS JOHANNESBURG, The “Rainbow Nation” An individual look at all The latest news from DURBAN, gets ready to shine 32 contenders our members HERZOGENAURACH Spectacular images as South 28 146 158 Africa prepares to welcome LEAVING A LEGACY PIRATES, EAGLES MEN’S RANKING the world How the 2010 FIFA World AND ELEPHANTS Brazil take over Cup™ is benefi ting all of What nicknames say about Africa national teams 160 FIFA ARCHIVE 46 150 Long boat to Uruguay FUNDING THE DECISION-MAKERS FUTURE Face to face with the 2010 Ensuring local involvement FIFA World Cup referees in South Africa’s World Cup 48 EIGHT MEMORABLE DECADES Reliving 80 years of FIFA World Cup history FIFA WORLD I JUNE/JULY 2010 5 VIEW READY AND WAITING Offi cial 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Mascot Zakumi welcomes fans to Cape Town’s spectacular new Green Point Stadium, one of ten magnifi cent venues being used for the tournament in South Africa. 6 FIFA WORLD I JUNE/JULY 2010 NO MORE HANGING AROUND With her head apparently turned upside down by football, a young South African swings from a Johannesburg climbing frame while blowing South Africa’s iconic vuvuzela trumpet. FIFA WORLD I VIEW 7 CONFIDENT FANS A brightly-clad Bafana Bafana supporter is all smiles as South Africa warm up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ with a 1-1 friendly draw with Namibia in Durban. 8 FIFA WORLD I JUNE/JULY 2010 SMILE! South Africa’s Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira tries out life on the other side of the lens during his team’s April training camp in Germany. FIFA WORLD I VIEW 9 NEWS TIME TO CELEBRATE 10 FIFA WORLD I JUNE/JULY 2010 Every FIFA World Cup™ is different, with the host nation in particular lending each edition of FIFA’s fl agship tournament its own fl avour, unique characteristics and memorable moments. But the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ has the potential to be the most memorable yet with its South African setting marking the long- awaited arrival of world football’s most prestigious tournament on humanity’s oldest continent. It has been a long road, both in convincing the doubters that South Africa was ready redouble its efforts on the continent, both to receive the FIFA World Cup and then in in terms of football development and its meeting the long list of requirements that social development programmes. go into staging an event of this magnitude. While the international fans are sampling But, as you will discover in the pages of all that South Africa has to offer, this this special double issue of FIFA World, it will also be a tournament for the South has been worth the wait and the effort. African people. With the help of the South Africa is ready and the country’s Local Organising Committee and the FIFA hosting of FIFA’s biggest tournament is Partners, FIFA’s innovative Ticket Fund set to see the “Rainbow Nation” welcome initiative has enabled thousands of local hundreds of thousands of international residents who would not otherwise have football fans, many of them fi rst-time been able to afford tickets to a World Cup visitors to Africa. In between enjoying match to take their places in the stadiums. football matches of the highest calibre For those without tickets, the FIFA Fan there will be the chance to discover and Fests™ will again be providing a stadium savour the diversity of South Africa and atmosphere in public viewing areas across the famed warmth of its equally diverse the country and, for the fi rst time, in six people – whose 11 distinctive cultures other locations around the globe – a fi tting and languages have now come together project for a tournament that promises to in a nation particularly well-suited to bring the world to Africa and beam Africa welcoming the 31 international teams to the world. who will now be arriving in the country. As well as being a milestone for Africa The tournament is a chance to celebrate and a chance to revise old prejudices, as the Africa and also to give something back to world comes together once more, the 2010 a continent that has already given so much FIFA World Cup is of course still at heart a and too rarely received the recognition football competition, and later in this issue or gratitude that it deserves. Later in this we offer a detailed look back at the history issue, we take a look at how FIFA has and events of the 18 previous editions. The used the staging of the fi rst FIFA World second half of the magazine, from page 64 Cup on African soil as an opportunity to onwards, is then given over to the teams in an assessment of their respective strengths and star players, a review of how they qualifi ed for the tournament and a sense of their hopes for the fi nal competition itself. Whether you are reading this issue in South Africa or elsewhere, whether during the tantalising last few days before the event gets under way or during a pause between the action, the FIFA World South Africa’s bright and noisy supporters could make this the loudest team wish you a successful and highly FIFA World Cup™ ever. memorable 2010 FIFA World Cup. FIFA WORLD I NEWS 11 RAINBOW MOMENT South Africa’s transformation from pariah state to 2010 FIFA World Cup™ hosts is a tale of amazing social and political change, in which sport has often played a signifi cant role. By Luxolo Mantambo, Johannesburg From fighting and conquering the For a country that tasted liberation and perfect. It will also signal the end apartheid system to emerging out of global less than two decades ago, South Africa of a journey that has been travelled, as isolation and hosting major international already boasts an impressive record when FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter put it, events, South Africa has travelled a long, it comes to hosting major international “with trust and confi dence” – confi dence fascinating and sometimes meandering sports events – although none yet on in Africa’s capability to showcase itself journey that has included speed bumps, the same scale as the 2010 FIFA World on the world stage and trust in South trials, triumphs and plenty of glorious Cup. Indeed, by staging FIFA’s fl agship Africa’s promise to deliver not only a great moments – all in the space of the mere tournament, South Africa will become tournament, but to leave a legacy for the 16 years that have passed since the nation the fi rst African country to have hosted entire African continent. achieved democracy. World Cups for three major sporting codes To fully comprehend the elation, passion Now the “Rainbow Nation”, as post- – starting with the Rugby World Cup in and emotions associated with this FIFA apartheid South Africans fondly refer to 1995 and continuing with cricket for the World Cup™, one needs to understand their country, will take its rightful place in 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup and 2007 the historical background of a country the international spotlight when 31 teams ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup.