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A soccer fan looks at the FIFA Soccer World Cup Trophy in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, May 7, 2010.
Tuesday, May. 25, 2010

Open quoteThis is not our World Cup. This is FIFA's World Cup. We are just the organizers.Close quote

  • GREG FREDERICKS,
  • a senior manager for South Africa's World Cup organizing committee, on the role of soccer's Zurich-based world governing body; some South Africans have pushed to make the event their own, insisting on things like the inclusion of local musicians
Photo: Mike Hutchings / Reuters | Source: IHT