Asimbonanga 2010

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 10 stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the opening and final played at the
Soccer City stadium in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg.32 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 16 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 the Netherlands (third-time losing finalists) 1–0 after extra time,
with Andrés Iniesta's goal in the 116th minute giving Spain their first world title. Spain became the eighth nation to win
the tournament and the first European nation to win a World Cup hosted outside its home continent:
all previous World Cups held outside Europe had been won by South American nations.
2010 FIFA World Cup. Wikipedia
The Free Encyclopedia. September 2, 2022

While the event did help to boost the image of South Africa, financially it turned out
to be a major disappointment.Construction costs for venues and infrastructure amounted to €3.6 billion,
and the government expected that increased tourism would help to offset these costs to the amount of €680 million
However, only €385 million were actually taken in as 309,000 foreign fans came to South Africa,
well below the expected number of 450,000

The final was held on 11 July 2010 at Soccer City, Johannesburg. Spain defeated the Netherlands 1–0,
with an extra time goal from Andrés Iniesta. Iniesta scored the latest winning goal in a FIFA World Cup final (116')
The win gave Spain their first World Cup title, becoming the eighth team to win it. This made them the first new winner
without home advantage since Brazil in 1958,[80] and the first team to win the tournament after having lost their opening game