2010 World Cup

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2010 FIFA World Cup
South Africa 2010
2010 FIFA World Cup official logo
Tournament details
Host country
South Africa
Dates
11 June – 11 July
Teams
32 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)
10 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions
Spain (1st title)
Runner-up
Netherlands
Third place
Germany
Fourth place
Uruguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played
64
Goals scored
145 (2.27 per match)
Attendance
3,178,856 (49,670 per match)
Top scorer(s)
Thomas Müller David Villa Wesley Sneijder Diego Forlán(5 goals)
Best player
Diego Forlán
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The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations; in 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals.
The matches were played in ten stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final played at the Soccer City stadium in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg. Thirty-two teams were selected for participation via a worldwide qualification tournament that began in August 2007. In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These sixteen teams advanced to the knockout stage, where three rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final.
In the final, Spain, the European champions, defeated third-time finalists the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time, with Andrés Iniesta's goal in the 116th minute giving Spain their first world title, the first time that a European nation has won the tournament outside its home continent. Host nation South Africa, 2006 world champions Italy and 2006 runners-up France were eliminated in the first round of the tournament.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup

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