Soccer City Stadium

South Africa as World Cup host country must have an international stadium. These stages will be used in implementing the World Cup. One of them is the Soccer City Stadium. This stadium is a stadium that stood in the city of Johannesburg and was built in 1987. This stadium formerly known as the FNB stadium with a capacity of about 80 thousand spectators. However, the current stadium capacity is increased to 94.700 and a stadium with the largest capacity in southern Africa.

The outside of the stadium is designed to have the appearance of a calabash, an African pot, the cladding on the outside is a mosaic of fire and earthen colours with a ring of lights running around the bottom of the structure, simulating fire underneath the pot. No spectator will be more than 100 metres (330ft) from the action and there are no restricted views in the stadium.

The stands in Soccer City are articulated by ten black vertical lines; nine are aligned geographically with the nine other stadia involved in the 2010 World Cup, and a tenth line is aimed at Berlin's Olympic Stadium, which hosted the previous World Cup final in 2006. This represents the road to the final and it is hoped that after the World Cup, each goal scored at the stadium will be placed in pre-cast concrete panels on a podium so that the full history of the tournament’s scores can be seen for years to come.

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soccer injury

Football is an active sport. each player is required to move for a particular purpose. Also in football, too frequent physical fights between the players with other players. Physical fights in this case are not in a negative sense but the physical contest to fight the ball. With the frequent physical fights, will increase the risk of injury to players. These injuries sometimes greatly feared by football players and even professional players.

Professional players will have a higher risk of injury. This injury is the main fear of professional players and even the world's top players. If a professional player injured, may not only have pain, but also lose the opportunity to defend his team. Sometimes the injury will make the players can not compete in the bull or even more. Sometimes these wounds will often recur when the treatment was not done correctly.

A professional player must be very aware of the importance of preventing these injuries. for these players usually warm up first before doing the match. although this may be very simple, but perhaps it is this which is the basis for the injury is not too much of. Besides football players usually wear safety equipment in order to reduce the impact during play. However, if this injury really happened should have a medical team to give proper first aid for first aid may be decisive.

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