No.12 : World Cup 2010 South Africa

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Last Updated : April 2004

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No.2 : Sony confirmed as FIFA Partner from 2007-2014. (April 6, 2005) By FIFA

FIFA is proud to announce that Sony Corporation has signed up as a FIFA Partner in the innovative and wide-ranging product category "Digital Life" from 2007 to 2014 in one of the biggest sponsorship deals in the history of sport to date, consisting of a record cash payment of USD 305million plus support for various FIFA events. Simultaneously, this marks the first time that Sony Corporation has entered into a global sponsorship deal of this scale. FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter and Sony Chairman and Group CEO Nobuyuki Idei have signed up at a private ceremony in Tokyo on 4 April.
Sony is the third company after adidas and Hyundai to join FIFA's new class of sponsorship that combines the highest level of affiliation to FIFA with a long-term commitment through to 2014. As one of six FIFA Partners, Sony will enjoy core sponsorship rights to all FIFA competitions including the flagship FIFA World Cup in 2010 and 2014, as well as special events and development initiatives.

No.1 : Host nation of 2010 FIFA World Cup is South Africa. (May 15, 2004) By FIFA

South Africa will host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first in the history of world football's governing body to be held in Africa. With 14 votes, South Africa were declared as winners after the first round of voting. Morocco received 10 votes, while Egypt did not tally any.
FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter announced the results of the vote at a media conference held today, Saturday, 15 May 2004, at the World Trade Center in Zurich in the presence of high-ranking government officials of the candidate countries as well as hundreds of media representatives from all around the world. In a short address prior to announcing the host nation, Blatter thanked the five bidders for their excellent work and stressed: "The winner is Africa. The winner is football."
Convening on Saturday morning to discuss the applications for the final time, the FIFA Executive Committee only had to deliberate over four bids, as prior to the associations' presentations on 14 May, the FIFA Executive Committee had once again confirmed that the FIFA Statutes did not provide for a co-hosting arrangement. This confirmation led Tunisia to withdraw its bid. Furthermore, during its final deliberations, the Executive Committee came to the conclusion that it could no longer consider Libya's bid as it did not meet all the stipulations laid down in the official List of Requirements. The executive also thanked the Libyan Football Federation for its work during the bidding procedure.
The result of the vote represents the highlight and climax of an 18-month procedure that began at the end of 2002 with the African member associations invited to declare an interest in hosting the tournament. As well as the five countries that submitted full bid files and received visits from the FIFA Inspection Group between October 2003 and the end of January 2004, Nigeria had also shown initial interest but decided against following it up at the end of September 2003.
In 2000, following the dramatic result of the voting for the host nation of the 2006 FIFA World Cup with Germany prevailing by 12 votes to 11 (with one abstention), the FIFA Executive Committee decided to introduce a rotation policy for the FIFA World Cup and accorded Africa the right to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup. FIFA's flagship event will be held in South America in 2014.