The Vuvuzelas are silent. But ten years after Africa’s first and only football world Cup in South Africa of a celebratory mood is the former host to feel nothing. “We thought about going to concerts and games and the Fifa spoke to the Coronavirus but it has made all the plans,” complains Danny Jordaan. The then chief organizer and current President of the national football Association, Safa is considered to be the face of the 2010 soccer world Cup. With regret he confesses that the thought of virtual events is hardly the atmosphere of that time can summon. “Realistically, this is not possible,” he says of the German press Agency.
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the German record national player Lothar Matthäus had been raised during a visit to Johannesburg, the idea of a friendly match between Germany and South Africa. Ten years ago, he have experienced a great mood in the newly built stadiums. The DFB-Eleven stormed with new young people swing to the top scorer Thomas Müller to the semi-finals. Only coach Joachim Löw came Out for the Federal government in its first world Cup as a head coach against the later world champion Spain (0:1).
Matthew made his proposals in March, there have been reported in Africa, the first cases of Coronavirus. Only a little later imposed South Africa is one of the world’s most stringent curfews. Many conferences have been should be discussed deleted – including one in Durban, at the appropriate plans, as well as the legacy of the world Cup in South Africa. “It would be a shame if Tommy’s idea could be implemented somehow,” says Joe tin Bauer, the German Coach from the Johannesburg star club Orlando Pirates, and stresses: “I believe that the world Cup has brought to the country.”
On 11. June 2010 South Africa’s national team Bafana Bafana with a 1:1 against Mexico in Johannesburg’s Soccer City, the world Cup is about to begin. The opening game was also the same at the start of the noisy Fan-Horn of the host country known around the world: the Vuvuzela. “Some Fans hated their noise – in a large US stadiums was banned even,” says Jordaan. He interprets the Horn as a Symbol of hope – the Corona-times is now experiencing in South Africa a kind of Renaissance, and in many places in the evening as a sound of encouragement sounds.
It was the beginning of a football Show, which should show the world what Africa is capable of. This is also a First-class infrastructure belonged to. A international airport build? What went in Berlin for years, was in Durban, a matter of barely two years. Even today, the port city benefits from it.
“that prevailed 100 years, the Belief that Africa can no world Cup on the legs,” said Jordaan and refers also to the doubters who called for a “Plan B” for the host South Africa. “Afro-pessimism was a big challenge”. As the host, South Africa, however, showed the best side of and posted this image, made in the following years the numbers in increasing tourists noticeable. All the doubters on South Africa’s performance and timely completion of the infrastructure in Spite of it was a light-hearted football Festival.
