2010 World Cup introduction gives you information about World Cup tournament

The 2010 FIFA World Cup that is being hold in South Africa is the 19th World Cup since it was invented. The world Cup is the important international association football match tournament. It is planned to begin on June 11 and is completed on July 11. The world Cup became a culmination of a qualification process in the year of 2007, involving the 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams.

It is the first time that the World Cup is hosted by an African country. Off the field, the 2010 world cup has been notable for introducing the noise of the vuvuzela, a very long horn blown by football fans throughout matches, into international public consciousness.

As the hosting country, South Africa is automatically qualified for the match, however, South Africa takes part in the World Cup qualifiers as the CAF qualifiers also served as the qualifying tournament for the 2010 African Cup of Nations.

There is the list of qualified teams around the world: AFC includes Australia, Japan, Korea DPR and Korea Republic; and the CAF contains Algeria, Cameroon, Cote d’lovire, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa; the CONCACAF consists of Honduras, Mexico, and United States; the CONMEBOL includes Argentina, Brazil, Chile Paraguay and Uruguay; the OFC contains New Zealand; the UEFA contains Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland.

2010 World Cup is the first cup which does not allow any nations qualifying for the first time, despite Slovakia and Serbia have previously appeared only as parts of former competing nations.

Finally, the total money on the tournament was about 420 million USD, with 60% increase compared with 2006 tournament. As far as we know, before the tournament is hosted, each team can receive 1 million USD as the preparation costs. As long as the tournament begins, each team which is existing at the [link=
http://pubarticles.com/article-who-is-to-be-the-most-shining-star-in-world-cup-2010-1271831262.html]group stage can have 8 million USD, therefore, the money will be distributed as follows:

9 million USD for Round of 16

18 million USD for Quarter-finals

20 million USD for Semi-finals

24 million USD for Runners up

30 million USD for Winners

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