One Year to go to World Cup 2010 kicks-off

In exactly a year’s time, the opening match of the 2010 World Cup will be played at the 94,000 Soccer City stadium on the outskirts of Soweto in Johannesburg.

South Africa will have 10 stadiums for the tournament, five will be brand new - Port Elizabeth’s Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium was opened earlier this week, the venues in Durban, Polkwane and Nelspruit are expected to be completed by October and the fifth, Green Point in Cape Town, is set to open in February next year.

If fans do have concerns about security, it hasn’t stopped them buying tickets for the World Cup, with more than 630,000 already sold to fans in 188 countries. There have been 228,000 requests from England alone

Organisers estimate that 430,000 fans will descend on South Africa next June

So far 1841 goals have been scored in qualifying, Nilmar scoring the latest in a 2-1 win over Paraguay.