Why did Fifa award the World Cup to South Africa?
Fifa decided that the 2010 tournament would be hosted by an African country, with five countries – South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya – in the running. In 2004 the organisation’s inspection committee announced that South Africa had the potential to organise an “excellent” World Cup – compared to Egypt and Morocco’s potential to organise “very good” World Cups, Tunisia’s potential to organise a “good” World Cup, and the probability that Libya would “face great difficulties in organising a World Cup to the standards required”.
