We are on time, insist 2010 World Cup organisers
Danny Jordaan, the chief executive of the organising committee for the 2010 World Cup, insisted Sunday South Africa "is on time" to host the tournament and dismissed rumours Germany could step in as a replacement.
And Jordaan said FIFA president Sepp Blatter would be impressed the next time he visits South Africa at the progress made there in recent months.
"We are on time and there will be no more strikes on the construction building sites," Jordaan was quoted in Monday's edition of Die Welt. "The next time Mr Blatter visits South Africa, we will show him what enormous progress we have made."
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Time to look ahead to the next big international soccer event! I enjoyed the sights of FIFA's 2006 World Cup in Germany and this year's EuroCup in Austria/Switzerland on the television. Wonder if the weather in South Africa will be as trying for the soccer players as Beijing's humidity was for the Olympic athletes?