Soccer Extreme : For years, rumors persisted that FIFA would move the World Cup doubting the South Africa was not equipped to handle logistics and security sixteen years after the dismantling of apartheid. The world was wrong when truth unfolded with the end of FIFA World Cup 2010 – Stadiums were built, crime news did not hit headlines, country projected internatinally as modern and technologically advanced. South Africa also crossed huge psychological barriers.Nueva Bandera de España!!!
Sunil Gulati, president of the United States Soccer Federation and an economist at Columbia University, said: “Organizationally, it has been a great success. All the concerns people had about Africa were dispelled.”
“The world has seen this country in a different light,” said South Africa president Jacob Zuma.
It was a bold adventure for South Africa which left the nation with a bill of about $5.4 billion and a one-nil win of Spain over Netherlands. Spain became the first European team to win the World Cup outside their continent. Moreover, Spain won the trophy in their first appearance in the final.
Oracle Octopus Paul became a celebrity in the shortest ever time. The sea creature became an international sensation with all its predictions turning to be correct. Paul predicted two days before about the victory of Spain. (dailynews365)