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World Cup Soccer/Football 2010 – Update Report
Green Point or nothing for 2010
7th December, 2006.
It’s Green Point Common for the stadium, or Cape Town loses 2010 World Cup, the Cape Town city council said today.
Cape Town could easily lose hosting altogether any of the 2010 World Cup games, if it doesn’t build the 68,000 seater stadium at Green Point and start right now.
There is and has been, so much political rantings and arguments over this and that, that sadly no-one has agreed anything yet and if the “warring” decision makers don’t agree upon a plan immediately there is a possibility of Cape Town losing ALL its World Cup games to another city in South Africa.
There were light-hearted thoughts by Fifa that Newlands could take on the games but it’s got many disadvantages, including being too small.
The Executive Mayor, Helen Zilla, said today that “the provincial and national government have said that we must host a semi-final or we (Cape Town) lose 2010.”
On another side issue, Fifa today announced the exact dates that the 2010 World Cup will be held.
Starting - June 11, 2010.
Ending - July 11, 2010.
The continents that will have teams here are – 6 African, 12 European, 5 Asian, 1 Oceanic and 8 from the whole continent of the Americas. This effectively gives Africa one more team and Europe one less.
African qualifying games will start in October 2007.
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Cape Town could lose over R10 billion
14th December, 2006.
Cape Town could stand to lose more than R10 billion, yes billion, that’s been allocated to infrastructural improvements, if legal action delays continue to hinder the building of the new 68,000 seater stadium at Green Point for the 2010 World Cup.
This is the rough calculation of money lost by the city, as upgrades to Cape Town’s infrastructure will be delayed and be a lot less urgent.
Work on the new stadium is meant to start in January 2007.
All 9 cities have signed agreements with Fifa on hosting the World Cup games, but the facilities have to be available before it is decided which games are played where. It is also unknown at present if Newlands or Athlone stadiums would be able to host quarter final games in Cape Town.
Besides the R2 billion needed to build the Cape Town stadium, the need for an urban park for Green Point would be reviewed and the urgent need to upgrade roads, the airport and rail services, including the proposed airport to city centre rail link, would also be reviewed. There are also plans to upgrade the V&A Waterfront and build new hotels.
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Green Point Stadium gets a boost
26th January, 2007.
The Green Point stadium plans for the 2010 World Cup were given a helpful boost yesterday, when the Green Point Common Association, who has previously been strongly fighting against the proposed stadium, voted in favour of its construction.
A show of 103 hands for it, to 73 hands against it, now means that finally the stadium can start to take shape.
The Green Point Common Association were persuaded to see sense, after Major Helen Zilla announced that the city council’s army of lawyers believed that to fight it’s construction would produce a lose-lose situation in any court and that would amount to approximately R3 million in court costs that the Association would have to find to defend it’s argument in court.
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Carlos Alberto Parreira goes shopping
28th January, 2007.
If you were the new coach of South Africa’s national soccer team, what would you start urgently spending money on?
New equipment; new training facilities or maybe drawing up new financial incentives and contracts for your players, so that they played better?
Well none of these if you are Carlos Alberto Parreira, because he has decided that he urgently needs a new house and not any old house either. So today, in his first day on the job, he has been busy house hunting in the swanky area of Sandton.
Walking from his 5 star hotel around the corner, he decided to inspect a luxury penthouse apartment on the market at R55,000 per month. (That’s a whopping $8,000 or £4,000, for you guys in the northern hemisphere).
After 45 minutes looking around this deluxe apartment, which boasts private gym, splash pool and hi-tech all mod-cons, he decided to view a fully furnished 4 bedroom house on the rental market at R60,000 per month.
This property comes with a musical sound system worth R200,000, massive entertainment area and a landscaped garden and if purchased on the open market would cost a whopping R7 million ($1 million / £500,000).
Well this is I suppose peanuts when you consider that he will be earning R1.8 million per month. ($257,000 / £130,000)
It’s a hard life for some isn’t it?
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It’s off to work we go….!!!
4th February, 2007.
Today saw Carlos Alberto Parreira finally start working for a living. He says he will be watching as many domestic football matches as he can over the next month, saying he expects to watch at least 2 games per day.
To his credit, Parreira does need to see how players across the country perform on the football pitch before he can start to put a solid squad together.
The next international fixture is against Chad in March and even after that match he says that things will chop-and-change drastically.
Defensively Bafana Bafana are reasonably solid, but attacking and scoring goals is another matter altogether. He does need the services of Benni McCarthy, but he is busy in the UK with Blackburn Rovers. Players like Steven Pienaar play in the German Bundesliga, with other South Africans playing in Greece, Sweden and Russia.
These gentlemen will also be hard pressured for regular South African fixtures as they are otherwise committed to their league clubs. But we are sure Parreira will be more than persuasive in bring them home for training and South Africa international games.
Good luck Carlos!! South Africa is counting on you.
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Gansbaai, Hermanus – New Soccer Stadium
February 2007.
Absa / Barclays has, in partnership with local government and the Grootbos Foundation, today made a huge contribution to starting work on the brand new soccer facility and stadium at Gansbaai.
This is the first ever Barclays Space for Sports project ever to be sited outside the UK and will form part of the Absa / Barclays Corporate Social Investment programme.
There are rumours about that this purpose build soccer stadium maybe home to one of the 2010 World Cup countries, which would be a huge injection to the local economy in Gansbaai, Stanford and Hermanus.
Gansbaai is only 2 hours from central Cape Town and accessed by driving thro' the beautiful seaside town of Hermanus, some 35 minutes away from Gansbaai.
The local Overstrand council has contributed prime land valued at approximately R10 million, with the Western Cape Provincial Government contributing R1.5 million towards brand new infrastructure development. The Grootbos Foundation will be in charge of landscaping the green areas and plans to plant over 1,000 new trees on the site.
As well as football being very well looked after with this brand new site, other sports will also benefit, such as netball, basketball and cricket. Local community festivals will also be held here.
7th December, 2006.
It’s Green Point Common for the stadium, or Cape Town loses 2010 World Cup, the Cape Town city council said today.
Cape Town could easily lose hosting altogether any of the 2010 World Cup games, if it doesn’t build the 68,000 seater stadium at Green Point and start right now.
There is and has been, so much political rantings and arguments over this and that, that sadly no-one has agreed anything yet and if the “warring” decision makers don’t agree upon a plan immediately there is a possibility of Cape Town losing ALL its World Cup games to another city in South Africa.
There were light-hearted thoughts by Fifa that Newlands could take on the games but it’s got many disadvantages, including being too small.
The Executive Mayor, Helen Zilla, said today that “the provincial and national government have said that we must host a semi-final or we (Cape Town) lose 2010.”
On another side issue, Fifa today announced the exact dates that the 2010 World Cup will be held.
Starting - June 11, 2010.
Ending - July 11, 2010.
The continents that will have teams here are – 6 African, 12 European, 5 Asian, 1 Oceanic and 8 from the whole continent of the Americas. This effectively gives Africa one more team and Europe one less.
African qualifying games will start in October 2007.
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Cape Town could lose over R10 billion
14th December, 2006.
Cape Town could stand to lose more than R10 billion, yes billion, that’s been allocated to infrastructural improvements, if legal action delays continue to hinder the building of the new 68,000 seater stadium at Green Point for the 2010 World Cup.
This is the rough calculation of money lost by the city, as upgrades to Cape Town’s infrastructure will be delayed and be a lot less urgent.
Work on the new stadium is meant to start in January 2007.
All 9 cities have signed agreements with Fifa on hosting the World Cup games, but the facilities have to be available before it is decided which games are played where. It is also unknown at present if Newlands or Athlone stadiums would be able to host quarter final games in Cape Town.
Besides the R2 billion needed to build the Cape Town stadium, the need for an urban park for Green Point would be reviewed and the urgent need to upgrade roads, the airport and rail services, including the proposed airport to city centre rail link, would also be reviewed. There are also plans to upgrade the V&A Waterfront and build new hotels.
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Green Point Stadium gets a boost
26th January, 2007.
The Green Point stadium plans for the 2010 World Cup were given a helpful boost yesterday, when the Green Point Common Association, who has previously been strongly fighting against the proposed stadium, voted in favour of its construction.
A show of 103 hands for it, to 73 hands against it, now means that finally the stadium can start to take shape.
The Green Point Common Association were persuaded to see sense, after Major Helen Zilla announced that the city council’s army of lawyers believed that to fight it’s construction would produce a lose-lose situation in any court and that would amount to approximately R3 million in court costs that the Association would have to find to defend it’s argument in court.
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Carlos Alberto Parreira goes shopping
28th January, 2007.
If you were the new coach of South Africa’s national soccer team, what would you start urgently spending money on?
New equipment; new training facilities or maybe drawing up new financial incentives and contracts for your players, so that they played better?
Well none of these if you are Carlos Alberto Parreira, because he has decided that he urgently needs a new house and not any old house either. So today, in his first day on the job, he has been busy house hunting in the swanky area of Sandton.
Walking from his 5 star hotel around the corner, he decided to inspect a luxury penthouse apartment on the market at R55,000 per month. (That’s a whopping $8,000 or £4,000, for you guys in the northern hemisphere).
After 45 minutes looking around this deluxe apartment, which boasts private gym, splash pool and hi-tech all mod-cons, he decided to view a fully furnished 4 bedroom house on the rental market at R60,000 per month.
This property comes with a musical sound system worth R200,000, massive entertainment area and a landscaped garden and if purchased on the open market would cost a whopping R7 million ($1 million / £500,000).
Well this is I suppose peanuts when you consider that he will be earning R1.8 million per month. ($257,000 / £130,000)
It’s a hard life for some isn’t it?
-------------------------------------------------
It’s off to work we go….!!!
4th February, 2007.
Today saw Carlos Alberto Parreira finally start working for a living. He says he will be watching as many domestic football matches as he can over the next month, saying he expects to watch at least 2 games per day.
To his credit, Parreira does need to see how players across the country perform on the football pitch before he can start to put a solid squad together.
The next international fixture is against Chad in March and even after that match he says that things will chop-and-change drastically.
Defensively Bafana Bafana are reasonably solid, but attacking and scoring goals is another matter altogether. He does need the services of Benni McCarthy, but he is busy in the UK with Blackburn Rovers. Players like Steven Pienaar play in the German Bundesliga, with other South Africans playing in Greece, Sweden and Russia.
These gentlemen will also be hard pressured for regular South African fixtures as they are otherwise committed to their league clubs. But we are sure Parreira will be more than persuasive in bring them home for training and South Africa international games.
Good luck Carlos!! South Africa is counting on you.
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Gansbaai, Hermanus – New Soccer Stadium
February 2007.
Absa / Barclays has, in partnership with local government and the Grootbos Foundation, today made a huge contribution to starting work on the brand new soccer facility and stadium at Gansbaai.
This is the first ever Barclays Space for Sports project ever to be sited outside the UK and will form part of the Absa / Barclays Corporate Social Investment programme.
There are rumours about that this purpose build soccer stadium maybe home to one of the 2010 World Cup countries, which would be a huge injection to the local economy in Gansbaai, Stanford and Hermanus.
Gansbaai is only 2 hours from central Cape Town and accessed by driving thro' the beautiful seaside town of Hermanus, some 35 minutes away from Gansbaai.
The local Overstrand council has contributed prime land valued at approximately R10 million, with the Western Cape Provincial Government contributing R1.5 million towards brand new infrastructure development. The Grootbos Foundation will be in charge of landscaping the green areas and plans to plant over 1,000 new trees on the site.
As well as football being very well looked after with this brand new site, other sports will also benefit, such as netball, basketball and cricket. Local community festivals will also be held here.
Percy Tours, TripAdvisor
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