Tickets for all 64 games in the 2010 World Cup finals tournament are now available for people in the host nation of South Africa to buy for cash. This even includes tickets to the climactic final itself, which will be held on the 11th of July in Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium.

It is confirmed that this year’s FIFA mascot will be made in China, rather than in South Africa. This was released by the clothing research agency ReDress and cited in a Business Report article last week while public concern has been aired about it through various media channels.

FIFA has now gone through the next (fourth) batch of sales; another total sale of over 400,000 tickets, making it a total of over two million tickets sold till now (including tour operators and the PMA sales). According to FIFA, this amounts to two thirds of the total tickets available in general.

We are happy to announce that all is going as planned for the World Cup organisers and it promises to be a memorable show. The South Africans are definitely ready to offer their outmost hospitality and a super hosting through the event.

News for the South African organisers has been good so far; with many of the North Africans planning to travel and attend the World Cup this year and showing their support.

The 2010 World Cup Chief and Deputy President Baleka Mbete are encouraging fellow South Africans to buy tickets to the World Cup games. Mbete has spoken to the soccer fans motivating them to buy tickets now rather than wait until they are sold out to the international fans.

Last week’s Friday saw the World Cup draw and also a presentation of the Adidas ‘Jabulani’ the official match ball of the 2010 World Cup by FIFA.

Statistics show that the rush for 2010 World Cup ticket sales has begun just one day after group-phase draw last Friday where we got to know who s playing who and when. February 2009 saw the first tickets sales with more than a million new tickets now up for sale. 674,403 tickets have been sold since then which amounts to 90% of those made available to date.

Representatives from FIFA and Sony announced yesterday that the matches of the 2010 World Cup are going to be filmed in 3-D for the first time ever. As many as 25 matches from the World Cup are going to be recorded using Sony’s special 3-D cameras and be shown to football fans at special sites.

News has it that the Republic of Ireland has requested an extra spot in the 2010 World Cup finals following their unfair ruling against France when Ireland lost to an extra-time goal when France’s Thierry Henry handled the ball.