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Kudos to all our friends in South Africa. From a comfortable distance, we loved the siren song of the vuvuzela and its unmistakable sound of the World Cup.

There were many online guides to the 2010 World Cup, but few that highlighted the nerdier aspects of Web 2.0 integration, the local travel movement, responsible travel and ecotourism options in South Africa. This wiki page features iphone applications, a google map of the stadium locations and other nerdy mashups. Most importantly we are keeping track of event analysis.

We are pleased to share [|conversations with Kurt Ackermann] in Cape Town. In fact, we're preparing an entire [|south africa playlist].

Analysis
Impact of World Cup (PDF) [|Government assessment] [|Study reveals tourism impact in South Africa] [|2010 FIFA World Cup official statistics - Southafrica.net] [|2010 World Cup in South Africa: 309 000 foreign tourist spend R3.6 billion] [|Tourism the Big World Cup Winner] http://www.capetown.travel/industry/news/news-entry/tourism_in_cape_town_a_year_after_the_2010_fifa_world_cup/

Key findings: more than 309,000 tourists arrived in South Africa for the sole purpose of attending the competition, giving the local economy a boost of R3.6 billion - as well as raising the profile of South Africa as a sought-after tourist destination.

Features
[|South Africa Conversations with Kurt Ackermann - Planeta.com] [|Finding Local Travel Opportunity in South Africa around the World Cup - WHL] [|Get close to people and the land - WHL] [|South Africa Tourism Gets a Boost - WHL] [|Fervour and favours in the football world - ABC] [|Photos and thoughts from the 2010 World Cup - Ralph Pina] [|South Africa's World Cup hangover - Dave Zirin] [| Valcke: South Africa set a new benchmark]

flickr
[|World Cup 2010 - Digital Globe]

flickrgroups
[|FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 - impressions] [| FIFA World Cup (fans, people, celebrating, watching)]

helpful resources
[|Official website] World Cup Schedule (pdf) [|32 Flags of Countries Playing in the World Cup]

Twitter
[|@2010fans]

rss

 * rss url="http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=WorldCup&cf=all&output=rss"link="true" number="10" date="true" || rss url="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=71284637@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200"link="true"number="10" date="true" ||

techno
[|Match Replay - Guardian] [|World Cup on Twitter] [|Make some noise! Get your vuvuzela on!] [|England-USA Game Played by Leggos] [|2010 World Cup Hub] [|World Cup Blogs - Wordpress]

games
[|Virtual Football - Jumongo]

eco
[|Greenpassport] [|Hartmut Stahl on The impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on Climate Change] [|View Questions and Answers]

iphone applications
http://www.apple.com/webapps/sports/2010worldcupschedule.html http://www.appsafari.com/sports/10380/espn-2010-world-cup - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/espn-2010-world-cup/id342370555?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

audio
[|FIFA World Cup Weekly] [|ESPN Radio]

audio features
[|From wogball to a national game: soccer and multiculturalism]

[|South Africa's underbelly]
The 2010 football World Cup is underway in South Africa, but behind the glitz and excitement the country is still mired by profound inequality. Will the World Cup have a trickle-down effect on the nation's poor, or are the new stadiums going to be a long-term drain on resources?

criticisms
[|Loeries give Fifa the bird]

humor
[|Nation's Soccer Fan Becoming Insufferable]

photos
Adidas versus adidas http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2010/07/08/2948484.htm

**elsewhere**
[|FIFA World Cup] [|World Cup Blog] [] [] http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au http://www.iafrica.com/worldcup http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup http://afrikatourism.blogspot.com/2010/05/cape-towns-green-goal-2010-wins-major.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/shared/inc/v4/world_cup_2010/wallchart/main.html

@http://www.mg.co.za/multimedia/2010-12-08-a-continents-dream-come-true

travel guides
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/sep/11/southafrica-cultural-trips [|World Cup Travel Guide Johannesburg] [|Park and Ride Cape Town]

guidelines
[|2010 FIFA Public Guidelines] (pdf) [|FIFA Stadium Code of Conduct]

prior coverage (including sensationalistic titles)
Why going to South Africa for the World Cup terrifies me

wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_schedule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_national_football_team http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_the_FIFA_World_Cup

10 Stadiums and 10 places of interest to the ecotourist
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Stadiums
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/destination/stadiums/index.html

The stadia in order of altitude are: [|Soccer City] and [|Ellis Park Stadium], 1753m; [|Royal Bafokeng Stadium], 1500m; [|Free State Stadium], 1400m; [|Peter Mokaba Stadium], 1310m; [|Loftus Versfeld Stadium], 1214m; [|Mbombela Stadium], 660m; [|Cape Town Stadium], [|Moses Mabhida Stadium] and [|Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium] near sea level.

• [|Green Point Stadium], Cape Town • [|Moses Mabhida Stadium], Durban • [|Nelson Mandela Stadium], Port Elizabeth • [|Mbombela Stadium], Nelspruit • [|Ellis Park Stadium], Johannesburg • [|Soccer City], Johannesburg • [|Loftus Versfeld Stadium], Pretoria • [|Free State Stadium], Bloemfontein • [|Royal Bafokeng Stadium], Rustenburg • [|Peter Mokaba Stadium], Polokwane

Who's playing?
32 teams qualified for the final tournament:


 * **Flag** || **Wikipedia** || **Planeta** ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/22px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Algeria] || algeria ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/22px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png width="22" height="14"]] || [|Argentina] || argentina ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Australia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] || [|Australia] || australia ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Brazil] || brazil ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/22px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Chile] || chile ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_Cote_d%27Ivoire.svg/22px-Flag_of_Cote_d%27Ivoire.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Côte d'Ivoire] || ivorycoast ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/22px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png width="22" height="17"]] || [|Denmark] || denmark ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/22px-Flag_of_England.svg.png width="22" height="13"]] || [|England] || england ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/22px-Flag_of_France.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|France] || france ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/22px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png width="22" height="13"]] || [|Germany] || germany ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_Ghana.svg/22px-Flag_of_Ghana.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Ghana] || ghana ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/22px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Greece] || greece ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Flag_of_Honduras.svg/22px-Flag_of_Honduras.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] || [|Honduras] || honduras ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/22px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Italy] || italy ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Japan] || japan ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Flag_of_North_Korea.svg/22px-Flag_of_North_Korea.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] || [|Korea DPR] || korea dpr ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/22px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Korea Republic] || korea ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/22px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png width="22" height="13"]] || [|Mexico] || mexico ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Netherlands] || netherlands ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/22px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] || [|New Zealand] || newzealand ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/22px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] || [|Nigeria] || nigeria ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Paraguay.svg/22px-Flag_of_Paraguay.svg.png width="22" height="13"]] || [|Paraguay] || paraguay ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/22px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Portugal] || portugal ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Serbia] || serbia ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Slovakia] || slovakia ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] || [|Slovenia] || slovenia ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/22px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|South Africa] || southafrica ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/22px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Spain] || spain ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Switzerland.svg/20px-Flag_of_Switzerland.svg.png width="20" height="20"]] || [|Switzerland] || switzerland ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png width="22" height="12"]] || [|United States] || usa ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/22px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] || [|Uruguay] || uruguay ||  ||

Quotes
It's not often you can participate in a truly global event, where mass interest creates an extraordinary shared focus. Football does it. More than the Olympics, more than space missions (though Apollo 11 must have come close) more than the great religious pilgrimages, the finals tournament of the FIFA World Cup has a planetary audience. It's a show so popular the organisers look forward to more than four //billion// dollars profit, as sponsors pay through the nose for that many eyes and ears. [|Fervour and favours in the football world - ABC]

One game changes everything. - [|ESPN]

Trivia
Seven of the eight American teams advanced to the Round of 16 (only Honduras went home) and five of these seven teams were group leaders. Europe went 5 for 13.

Spain became first team to lose its first game but still make it out of the group stage. Eight of the 10 teams to win its first game reached the Round of 16, but one of those (South Korea) has already been sent home.

Seven countries have won the World Cup

Brazil - 5 times Italy - 4 times Germany - 3 times Argentina - 2 times Uruguay - 2 times France - 1 time England - 1 time

The soccer world cup 2010 ball is called Jabulani. In Zulu language it means 'to celebrate.'

Official song - Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) - Shakira featuring Freshlyground

90 million people in the USA are actively involved in soccer.

FIFA has 208 member associations, which is 16 more than the United Nations and three more than the International Olympic Committee, though five fewer than the International Association of Athletics Federations. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA

More FIFA http://www.fifa.com http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/organisation/fanfest/index.html

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