The World Cup’s showpiece venue, which will also host the tournament’s opening match, has undergone massive renovation to be ready for June 11 2010 and has emerged as a 94,700-seat stadium in which it’s been promised that no spectator will be further than 100 metres from the action and there will be no restricted views.
The stadium’s rounded shape and reddish- brown hue are designed to resemble a ‘calabash’ – an African cooking pot which, when lit by a ring of lights running around the bottom of the structure, will resemble a simmering cauldron. If the stadium’s
completion party is anything to go by – a feast of roasted meat and sausages for
hundreds of workers – England fans will be Soccer City fans too by the tournament’s end.
Claim to fameThe stadium also hosted the first mass rally of Nelson Mandela after his release from prison in 1990
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