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“For the World Cup, its capacity will rise to almost 95,000 but this was reduced for its first match.”
“Salt Lake City, Utah as the chosen host city for the 2002 winter lympics.”
“It was the last of South Africa's 10 World Cup grounds to be unveiled.”
“Only 34 of the 55 players who have scored in the tournament's ultimate game since its inception in 1930 are still alive.”
“Michael Donald began the project in August 2009”
“found that about half the players were still involved with the sport.”
“Dirk Nanninga, plying his trade as a bathroom salesman for 20 years.”
“it took about a year of negotiation”
“with two guns on him”
“An exhibition of Michael's photographs will be on display at La Boca restaurant in Belfast next month”
“which begins on 11 June”
“since its inception in 1930”
“the Dutch scorer of the equaliser in the 1978 World Cup final, Dirk Nanninga”
“City have not featured in England's top flight since 1962.”
“The South African government is working with the United Nations children's agency Unicef during the games, which begin on 11 June.”
“Let them, just for four weeks, be good. Just for four weeks,”
“Around 40,000 City fans will converge on Wembley for tomorrow's play-off final against Blackpool, with a place in the Premier League at stake.”
“Cardiff City has never played in the Premier League, and has not featured in England's top flight since 1962.”
“Cardiff City striker Michael Chopra sets off for Wembley - the Bluebirds' first trip to the stadium since 2008”
“Ghana is one of six African teams in the continent's first World Cup”
“ahead of June's football World Cup in South Africa.”
“The value of the 2010 Champions League final is set to break all previous records,”
“The Premier League says on a typical weekend its matches are beamed into more than 500 million homes in 211 countries.”
“the impressive 9,000 seater Rose Bowl stadium”
“currently in the process of being extended to 15,000 through the addition of two new stands”
“Of the 15,000 permanent seats, which the expanded stadium will ultimately hold, some 6,000 will be under cover”
“The use of a further 10,000 temporary seating places can then increase the maximum capacity to 25,000 seats when needed”
“The two new stands have to be delivered by 18 June for a one day international between England and Australia on 22 June”
“The stadium expansion allows the Rose Bowl to become a Category A status stadium, one fit for hosting England Test match and one day internationals.”
“Jerome Valcke said only 40,000 tickets have been sold in countries in the continent outside of South Africa.”
“Over 2.5 million tickets have been sold out of 3 million available for the World Cup, which begins in three weeks.”
“While tickets in South Africa were offered at a lower price, fans in other African countries had to pay the standard amount - with the cheapest costing $80 (£54).”
“Taking place from 1 to 3 October at the Celtic Manor Resort, the eyes of the golfing world will be on Newport.”
“With sell-out crowds of 45,000 expected on each of the three days of the tournament, and thousands more on the preceding three practice days, Mr Shore agrees that it will give Newport and Wales a substantial economic boost.”
“Wound up in 1989 due to financial turmoil, and exiled from the Football League ever since, last season it was promoted back to the Blue Square Premier, just one division away from stepping back up from non-league football.”
“With sell-out crowds of 45,000 expected on each of the three days of the tournament”
“and thousands more on the preceding three practice days”
“Across Wales' approximately 200 golf courses”
“last season it was promoted back to the Blue Square Premier”
“His most recent film is Offside, which won the 2006 Berlin Film Festival's Silver Bear award”
“Fifa has said it will not comment on any specific or potential threats to the World Cup.”
“As part of its drive to build a more solid base around the women's game, this spring Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) launched a search for a sponsor for its National Women's Cricket Team. The idea was that cricket "can be strengthened and the game…”
“"Some of the funds that are freed will be invested in bringing international teams, coaches and trainers to Sri Lanka so that our female players can have the facilities and opportunities to be competitive on the world stage," the sponsor d…”
“"I hope that ICC would increase the number of international matches we play as we do not have the facilities of countries like Australia and New Zealand," she says.”
“"India, for example, have played new Zealand before [the tournament], but the last time we met New Zealand was the Twenty20 World Cup in England last year," she points out.”
“Sri Lanka's women lost against India and New Zealand in the preliminary round after securing a nail biting one-run win over regional rival Pakistan at this year's ICC Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean.”
“"The ICC actually offered teams ranked 5-10 [which includes Sri Lanka] invitations to compete at the Women's Cricket Challenge in Dubai in October 2010, but Sri Lanka was the only team to turn the offer down," ICC communications officer Ja…”
“The ICC actually offered teams ranked 5-10 [which includes Sri Lanka] invitations to compete at the Women's Cricket Challenge in Dubai in October 2010, but Sri Lanka was the only team to turn the offer down," ICC communications officer Jam…”
“"Internationals sponsors, advertisers and broadcasters are mainly interested in the Indian team," he points out.”
“National women's coach, Harsha de Silva, says the women's squad is offered more opportunities and facilities since the team were taken under the management of SLC nearly a year ago.”
“"Yes of course there is still a disparity compared to the men's national team but the things are gradually being improved," he says.”
“Playing on home ground has given host nations six wins out of 18 contests”
“PWC says Cameroon and Nigeria should do relatively well this year, and the host nation, South Africa, should do much better than its Fifaranking of 90th suggests.”
“The tournament, in South Africa, features 32 teams.”
“England's first World Cup game against the United States kicks off in South Africa on 12 June, after the final strike has ended.”
“The awarding of both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be decided by Fifa's executive committee in the Swiss city of Zurich in December.”
“after what would be 28 years since they hosted it in 1994”
“Japan and South Korea have submitted single bids after jointly hosting the event in 2002.”
“Mr Norman himself spent more than 300 weeks as the world's number one golfer in his heyday in the 1980s and early 1990s.”
“The authorities are particularly active to build up golf now that it is an Olympic sport... he says that the Chinese authorities envisage a total of 30 million players by 2020.”
“The tournament, in South Africa, features 32 teams. It starts on 11 June, with the final match played on 11 July.”
“The German government's official report into the way it organised the 2006 event reveals that as many as 170,000 foreigners were given permits to work in the country as part of the competition.”
“The Brazilian government, already awarded the 2014 World Cup, has just agreed that Fifa and its partners can be exempt from taxes on any goods and services related to the tournament for five years; from January 2011 until the end of 2015.”
“The final round of stoppages is planned for 5-9 June - just days before the football World Cup in South Africa.”
“Football fans planning to fly out to the World Cup in South Africa could also be affected, with the last of the five-day stoppages beginning on the first weekend of the tournament.”
“However England's first game against the United States kicks off on 12 June, after the final strike has ended.”
“Only last month, the eight-year ban from European competition imposed by Uefa on Macedonian club FK Pobeda for match-fixing was upheld.”
“Eight of the team, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, were accused of taking money from gamblers to throw the World Series.”
“Riverside needs to be developed out to a 20,000 capacity, as an Ashes Test in 2013 is looming.”
“Raddy Majewski has just signed a three year contract with Nottingham Forest”
“He has just signed a three year contract with Nottingham Forest Football Club after months of speculation.”
“Raddy Majewski arrived at the club a year ago on loan from Polonia Warsaw.”
“Qatar is pitching to host the soccer World Cup in 2022.”
“The top-tier sponsorship deal means Sainsbury's will be one of two sponsors to take advantage of the limited branding allowed during the games.”
“They [Sainsbury's] will go out to the whole of the UK through its 850 stores and its colleagues and get out to Britain the importance of the Paralympic Games in 2012.”
“No women earned enough to make the top 100.”
“He was part of the team that won the Le Mans race in 1988, though most of his riches come from land he has inherited.”
