FIFA World Cup Awards and There Are Currently Six Awards Give To The Players

FIFA World Cup Awards and It's Prize Money History-

At the end of each FIFA World Cup final tournament, several awards are attributed to the players and teams which have distinguished from the rest, in different aspects of the game.

FIFA World Cup prize money for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is up 60 percent to $420 million.

The World Cup champions will walk away with $30 million and the runners-up will receive $20 million.

FIFA also revealed that $40 million would be shared among the world’s top clubs as a contribution to cover insurance and other expenses for their players involved in the World Cup tournament.

“Every club who has a player at the World Cup will receive $1600 per day, per player,”.

Prize money-

The total prize money on offer for the tournament was confirmed by FIFA as US$420 million (including payments of US$40m to domestic clubs), a 60 percent increase on the 2006 tournament. Before the tournament, each of the 32 entrants receive US$1 million for preparation costs. Once at the tournament, the prize money would be distributed as follows:

• US$8 million – To each team exiting after the group stage (16 teams)
• US$9 million – To each team exiting after the round of 16 (8 teams)
• US$14 million – To each team exiting after the quarter-finals (4 teams)
• US$18 million – Fourth placed team
• US$20 million – Third placed team
• US$24 million – Runner up
• US$30 million – Winner

In a first for the World Cup, FIFA made payments to the domestic clubs of the players representing their national teams at the tournament. This saw a total of US$40 million paid to domestic clubs. This was the result of an agreement reached in 2008 between FIFA and European clubs to disband the G-14 group and drop their claims for compensation dating back to 2005 over the financial cost of injuries sustained to their players while on international duty, such as that from Belgian club Charleroi S.C. for injury to Morocco's Abdelmajid Oulmers in a friendly game in 2004, and from English club Newcastle United for an injury to England's Michael Owen in the 2006 World Cup.

Discipline-

 2010 FIFA World Cup disciplinary record

28 players were suspended after being shown two consecutive yellow cards (13 players), a single red card (8 players), or a yellow card followed by a red card (7 players).

 Awards-

• Golden Ball: Diego Forlán (Uruguay)
• Golden Boot: Thomas Müller (Germany)
• Golden Glove: Iker Casillas (Spain)
• Best Young Player: Thomas Müller (Germany)
• FIFA Fair Play Trophy:  Spain

All-Star Team-

The All-Star Team was decided by an online public vote, in which people were invited to select a team (in a 4–4–2 formation) and best coach. Voting was open until 23:59 on 11 July 2010, with entrants going into a draw to win a prize.

Six of the eleven players came from the Spanish team, as did the coach. The remainder of the team comprised one Dutch, one Brazilian, two Germans, and a Uruguayan.

• Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas ( Spain).
• Defenders: Philipp Lahm ( Germany), Sergio Ramos and Carles Puyol ( Spain), Maicon ( Brazil).
• Midfielders: Bastian Schweinsteiger ( Germany), Wesley Sneijder ( Netherlands), Andrés Iniesta and Xavi ( Spain)
• Forwards: David Villa ( Spain), Diego Forlán ( Uruguay)
• Manager: Vicente del Bosque ( Spain)

 

Awards-

There are currently six awards:

• the Golden Ball (currently commercially termed "adidas Golden Ball") for best player;
• the Golden Boot (also known as the Golden Shoe, commercially termed "adidas Golden Shoe" from 1982, although now referred to again as the Golden Boot) was first awarded in 1930 for top goal scorer;
• the Golden Glove Award for best goalkeeper (first awarded in 1994);
• the Best Young Player (currently commercially termed as "Hyundai Best Young Player") award for best player under 21 years of age at the start of the calendar year, first awarded in 2006.
• the FIFA Fair Play Trophy for the team with the best record of fair play (first awarded in 1970);
• the Most Entertaining Team award for the team that has entertained the public the most, during the World Cup final tournament, as determined by a poll of the general public, first awarded in 1994.

An All-Star Team (currently commercially termed "Mastercard All-Star Team") comprising the best players of the tournament, is also announced for each tournament since 1990.

 Golden Ball-

The Golden Ball award is presented to the best player at each FIFA World Cup finals, with a shortlist drawn up by the FIFA technical committee and the winner voted for by representatives of the media. Those who finish as runners-up in the vote receive the adidas Silver Ball and Bronze Ball awards as the second and third most outstanding players in the tournament respectively.

World Cup	Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
1930 Uruguay	José Nasazzi	Guillermo Stábile	José Leandro Andrade
1934 Italy	Giuseppe Meazza	Matthias Sindelar	Oldřich Nejedlý
1938 France	Leônidas	Silvio Piola	György Sárosi
1950 Brazil	Zizinho	Juan Schiaffino	Ademir
1954 Switzerland	Ferenc Puskás	Sándor Kocsis	Fritz Walter
1958 Sweden	Didi	Pelé	Just Fontaine
1962 Chile	Garrincha	Josef Masopust	Leonel Sánchez
1966 England	Bobby Charlton	Bobby Moore	Eusébio
1970 Mexico	Pelé	Gérson	Gerd Muller
1974 West Germany	Johan Cruijff	Franz Beckenbauer	Kazimierz Deyna
1978 Argentina	Mario Kempes	Paolo Rossi	Dirceu
1982 Spain	Paolo Rossi	Falcão	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1986 Mexico	Diego Maradona	Harald Schumacher	Preben Elkjær
1990 Italy	Salvatore Schillaci	Lothar Matthäus	Diego Maradona
1994 United States	Romário	Roberto Baggio	Hristo Stoichkov
1998 France	Ronaldo	Davor Šuker	Lilian Thuram
2002 Korea/Japan	Oliver Kahn	Ronaldo	Hong Myung-Bo
2006 Germany	Zinedine Zidane	Fabio Cannavaro	Andrea Pirlo
2010 South Africa	Diego Forlán	Wesley Sneijder	David Villa

 Golden Boot-

The Golden Boot or Golden Shoe Award goes to the top goalscorer of the FIFA World Cup. It was introduced at the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

If there is more than one player with the same amount of goals, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has contributed the most assists (with the FIFA Technical Study Group deciding whether an assist is to be counted as such). If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of time.

 

World Cup	Golden Boot	Goals	Silver Boot	Goals	Bronze Boot	Goals
1930 Uruguay	Guillermo Stábile	8	Pedro Cea	5	Bert Patenaude Guillermo Subiabre	4
1934 Italy	Oldřich Nejedlý	5	Edmund Conen Angelo Schiavio	4	Leopold Kielholz Raimundo Orsi	3
1938 France	Leônidas da Silva	7	Gyula Zsengellér	6	Silvio Piola György Sárosi	5
1950 Brazil	Ademir	9	Estanislao Basora Óscar Míguez	5	Francisco Aramburu Telmo Zarra Alcides Ghiggia	4
1954 Switzerland	Sándor Kocsis	11	Josef Hügi Max Morlock Erich Probst	6	Robert Ballaman Carlos Borges Nándor Hidegkuti Ferenc Puskás Helmut Rahn Hans Schäfer Ottmar Walter	4
1958 Sweden	Just Fontaine	13	Pelé Helmut Rahn	6	Vavá Peter McParland	5
1962 Chile	Garrincha Vavá Leonel Sánchez Dražan Jerković Valentin Ivanov Flórián Albert	4	Amarildo Adolf Scherer Lajos Tichy Milan Galić	3	Jaime Ramírez Eladio Rojas Jorge Toro Ron Flowers Uwe Seeler Giacomo Bulgarelli Igor Chislenko Viktor Ponedelnik José Sasía	2
1966 England	Eusébio	9	Helmut Haller	6	Franz Beckenbauer Ferenc Bene Geoff Hurst Valeriy Porkujan	4
1970 Mexico	Gerd Müller	10	Jairzinho	7	Teófilo Cubillas	5
1974 West Germany	Grzegorz Lato	7	Johan Neeskens Andrzej Szarmach	5	Ralf Edström Gerd Müller Johnny Rep	4
1978 Argentina	Mario Kempes	6	Teófilo Cubillas Rob Rensenbrink	5	Hans Krankl Leopoldo Luque	4
1982 Spain	Paolo Rossi	6	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	5	Zico Zbigniew Boniek	4
1986 Mexico	Gary Lineker	6	Diego Maradona Careca Emilio Butragueño	5	Jorge Valdano Preben Elkjaer Larsen Alessandro Altobelli Igor Belanov	4
1990 Italy	Salvatore Schillaci	6	Tomáš Skuhravý	5	Roger Milla Gary Lineker Lothar Matthäus Míchel	4
1994 United States	Hristo Stoichkov Oleg Salenko	6	Romário Jürgen Klinsmann Roberto Baggio Kennet Andersson	5	Gabriel Batistuta Florin Răducioiu Martin Dahlin	4
1998 France	Davor Šuker	6	Gabriel Batistuta Christian Vieri	5	Ronaldo Marcelo Salas Luis Hernández	4
2002 South Korea/Japan	Ronaldo	8	Rivaldo Miroslav Klose	5	Jon Dahl Tomasson Christian Vieri	4
2006 Germany	Miroslav Klose	5	Hernán Crespo	3	Ronaldo	3
2010 South Africa	Thomas Müller	5	David Villa	5	Wesley Sneijder	5

¹ FIFA initially credited Nejedlý with only four goals, which would make him joint top scorer with Angelo Schiavio of Italy and Edmund Conen of Germany. However, FIFA changed it to five goals in November 2006, making Nejedlý the outright top scorer.

² FIFA initially credited Leônidas with eight goals. However, in November 2006, FIFA confirmed that in the quarter-final tie against Czechoslovakia, he had scored once, not twice as FIFA had originally recorded, meaning he had scored only seven goals in total. Moreover, in some sources, Leônidas was miscredited with one Brazilian goal in the first-round match against Poland, scoring four goals instead of three in the match.

³ There was controversy regarding the number of goals Brazilian Ademir Menezes had scored in 1950, as a result of incomplete data concerning the Final Round game Brazil vs. Spain (6:1). The first goal had been credited as an own goal by Spanish defender Parra, and the 5:0 goal had been credited to Jair. However, recently FIFA credited Ademir with both these goals. The next highest scorers in the World Cup scored five goals each.

⁴ Since FIFA and adidas became partners over 30 years ago, the award's official name has been "adidas Golden Shoe".

⁵ Salenko is the only player to win the award playing for a team that were eliminated in the group stages. His six goals are the only international goals he ever scored.

⁶ During the tournament, after the group stage match against Costa Rica, Ronaldo logged a protest against the crediting of a goal as an own goal, and FIFA granted him the change.

⁷ Müller, Villa, Sneijder and Diego Forlán tied with 5 goals. Müller won by virtue of having more assists (3) than the rest (each had 1). Villa won the Silver Boot due to playing fewer minutes than Sneidjer, and Sneijder won the Bronze Boot due to having played fewer minutes than Forlán.

 Golden Glove-

The Golden Glove Award is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. Before 2010, the award was named the Yashin Award in honour of the late goalkeeper Lev Yashin (USSR). The FIFA Technical Study Group recognizes the top goalkeeper of the tournament based on the player’s performance throughout the final competition. Although goalkeepers have this specific award for their position, they are still eligible for the Golden Ball as well, as when Oliver Kahn was awarded in 2002. Although the Golden Glove Award was first awarded in 1994, every All-Star Team in World Cups prior to 1998 included only one goalkeeper.

World Cup	Goalkeeper included in the All-Star Team
1930 Uruguay	Enrique Ballesteros
1934 Italy	Ricardo Zamora
1938 France	František Plánička
1950 Brazil	Roque Máspoli
1954 Switzerland	Gyula Grosics
1958 Sweden	Harry Gregg
1962 Chile	Viliam Schrojf
1966 England	Gordon Banks
1970 Mexico	Ladislao Mazurkiewicz
1974 West Germany	Jan Tomaszewski
1978 Argentina	Ubaldo Fillol
1982 Spain	Dino Zoff
1986 Mexico	Harald Schumacher
1990 Italy	Sergio Goycochea

The Yashin Award was first awarded in 1994.

World Cup	Yashin Award winner
1994 United States	Michel Preud'homme
1998 France	Fabien Barthez
2002 Korea/Japan	Oliver Kahn
2006 Germany	Gianluigi Buffon

The award was renamed the Golden Glove Award in 2010.

World Cup	Golden Glove Award winner
2010 South Africa	Iker Casillas

 Best Young Player Award-

The Best Young Player award was awarded for the first time at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and given to Germany's Lukas Podolski. The award is given to the best player in the tournament who is at most 21 years old. For the 2006 FIFA World Cup this meant that the player had to have been born on or after 1 January 1985. The election took place on FIFA's official World Cup website with the help of The FIFA Technical Study Group.

FIFA organized a survey on the Internet for users to choose the "best young player" of the World Cup, between 1958 and 2002, named the best young player of each tournament. With 61% of the overall vote, the winner was Pelé, who finished ahead of the Peruvian Teófilo Cubillas, the best young player at Mexico 1970, and England’s Michael Owen, who reached similar heights at France 98.

World Cup	Young Player	Age
1958 Sweden	Pelé	17
1962 Chile	Flórián Albert	20
1966 England	Franz Beckenbauer	20
1970 Mexico	Teofilo Cubillas	21
1974 West Germany	Władysław Żmuda	20
1978 Argentina	Antonio Cabrini	20
1982 Spain	Manuel Amoros	21
1986 Mexico	Enzo Scifo	20
1990 Italy	Robert Prosinečki	21
1994 United States	Marc Overmars	21
1998 France	Michael Owen	18
2002 Korea/Japan	Landon Donovan	20

The Best Young Player Award was first awarded in 2006.

World Cup	Best Young Player Award	Age
2006 Germany	Lukas Podolski	21
2010 South Africa	Thomas Müller	20

FIFA Best Young Players Winners

 FIFA Fair Play Trophy-

The FIFA Fair Play Trophy is given to the team with the best record of fair play during the World Cup final tournament. Only teams that qualified for the second round are considered. The winners of this award earn the FIFA Fair Play Trophy, a diploma, a fair play medal for each player and official, and $50,000 worth of football equipment to be used for youth development.

The appearance of the award was originally a certificate but from 1982-1994 it had been a golden trophy based on Sport Billy, a well known football-playing cartoon character from 1982 who became an icon for FIFA Fair play. More recently it is simply a trophy with an elegant footballer figure. Peru was the first nation to win the award after receiving no yellow or red cards in the 1970 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico.

Peru's FIFA Fair Play trophy award. Peru won the award after receiving no yellow or red cards in the tournament.'

World Cup	FIFA Fair Play Trophy Winners
1970 Mexico	Peru
1978 Argentina	Argentina
1982 Spain	Brazil
1986 Mexico	Brazil
1990 Italy	England
1994 United States	Brazil
1998 France	England  France
2002 Korea/Japan	Belgium
2006 Germany	Brazil  Spain
2010 South Africa	Spain

 Most Entertaining Team-

The FIFA Award for the Most Entertaining Team is a fairly new accolade for the FIFA World Cup. It is a subjectively awarded prize for the team which has done the most to entertain the public with a positive approach to the game. The award is always organized through public participation in a poll.

World Cup	Most Entertaining Team Award
1994 United States	Brazil
1998 France	France
2002 Korea/Japan	South Korea
2006 Germany	Portugal
2010 South Africa	Germany

FIFA Awards for Most Entertaining Team

FIFA Most Entertaining Team for 2010 South Africa

 All-Star Team:

The All-Star Team, until 2006 named after sponsor MasterCard All-Star Team (in 2010,Yingli sponsored the award), is a team of players from the World Cup Finals, chosen up to 2006 by FIFA's technical study group, and in 2010 by an online poll on the FIFA.com website.

The number of players was expanded from 11 to 16 at the 1998 finals, and then to 23 in 2006, but returned to 11 in 2010 (which saw the selection of a coach, Vicente del Bosque). Before 1998, journalists and experts chose a "Dream Team" with outstanding players from each playing position. The teams were chosen mostly by European and South American journalists.

World Cup	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
1930 Uruguay	Enrique Ballesteros	José Nasazzi Milutin Ivković	Luis Monti Álvaro Gestido José Andrade	Pedro Cea Héctor Castro Héctor Scarone Guillermo Stábile Bert Patenaude
1934 Italy	Ricardo Zamora	Jacinto Quincoces Eraldo Monzeglio	Luis Monti Attilio Ferraris Leonardo Cilaurren	Giuseppe Meazza Raimundo Orsi Enrique Guaita Matthias Sindelar Oldřich Nejedlý
1938 France	František Plánička	Pietro Rava Alfredo Foni Domingos da Guia	Michele Andreolo Ugo Locatelli	Silvio Piola Gino Colaussi György Sárosi Gyula Zsengellér Leônidas
1950 Brazil	Roque Máspoli	Erik Nilsson José Parra Schubert Gambetta	Obdulio Varela Walter Bahr	Alcides Ghiggia Zizinho Ademir Jair Juan Alberto Schiaffino
1954 Switzerland	Gyula Grosics	Ernst Ocwirk József Bozsik José Santamaría	Fritz Walter Bauer	Helmut Rahn Nándor Hidegkuti Ferenc Puskás Sándor Kocsis Zoltan Czibor
1958 Sweden	Harry Gregg	Djalma Santos Bellini Nílton Santos	Danny Blanchflower Didi	Pelé Garrincha Just Fontaine Raymond Kopa Gunnar Gren
1962 Chile	Viliam Schrojf	Djalma Santos Cesare Maldini Valeriy Voronin Karl-Heinz Schnellinger	Zagallo Zito Josef Masopust	Vavá Garrincha Leonel Sánchez
1966 England	Gordon Banks	George Cohen Bobby Moore Vicente Silvio Marzolini	Franz Beckenbauer Mário Coluna Bobby Charlton	Florian Albert Uwe Seeler Eusébio
1970 Mexico	Ladislao Mazurkiewicz	Carlos Alberto Piazza Franz Beckenbauer Giacinto Facchetti	Gérson Teofilo Cubillas Bobby Charlton	Pelé Gerd Müller Jairzinho
1974 West Germany	Jan Tomaszewski	Berti Vogts Wim Suurbier Franz Beckenbauer Marinho Chagas	Wolfgang Overath Kazimierz Deyna Johan Neeskens	Rob Rensenbrink Johan Cruyff Grzegorz Lato
1978 Argentina	Ubaldo Fillol	Berti Vogts Ruud Krol Daniel Passarella Alberto Tarantini	Dirceu Teófilo Cubillas Rob Rensenbrink	Roberto Bettega Paolo Rossi Mario Kempes
1982 Spain	Dino Zoff	Luizinho Júnior Claudio Gentile Fulvio Collovati	Zbigniew Boniek Falcão Michel Platini Zico	Socrates Paolo Rossi Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1986 Mexico	Harald Schumacher	Josimar Manuel Amoros Maxime Bossis	Jan Ceulemans Felix Magath Michel Platini Diego Maradona	Preben Elkjær Larsen Emilio Butragueño Gary Lineker
1990 Italy	Sergio Goycochea	Andreas Brehme Paolo Maldini Franco Baresi	Diego Maradona Lothar Matthäus Roberto Donadoni Paul Gascoigne	Salvatore Schillaci Roger Milla Jurgen Klinsmann Claudio Caniggia
1994 United States	Michel Preud'homme Thomas Ravelli	Jorginho Márcio Santos Paolo Maldini Franco Baresi	Dunga Krasimir Balakov Gheorghe Hagi Tomas Brolin	Romário Hristo Stoichkov Roberto Baggio
1998 France	Fabien Barthez José Luis Chilavert	Roberto Carlos Marcel Desailly Lilian Thuram Frank de Boer Carlos Gamarra	Dunga Rivaldo Michael Laudrup Zinedine Zidane Edgar Davids	Ronaldo Davor Šuker Brian Laudrup Dennis Bergkamp
2002 Korea/Japan	Oliver Kahn Rüştü Reçber	Roberto Carlos Sol Campbell Fernando Hierro Hong Myung-Bo Alpay Özalan	Rivaldo Ronaldinho Michael Ballack Claudio Reyna Yoo Sang-Chul	Ronaldo Miroslav Klose El Hadji Diouf Hasan Şaş
2006 Germany	Gianluigi Buffon Jens Lehmann Ricardo	Roberto Ayala John Terry Lilian Thuram Philipp Lahm Fabio Cannavaro Gianluca Zambrotta Ricardo Carvalho	Zé Roberto Patrick Vieira Zinedine Zidane Michael Ballack Andrea Pirlo Gennaro Gattuso Luís Figo Maniche	Hernán Crespo Thierry Henry Miroslav Klose Luca Toni Francesco Totti
2010 South Africa	Iker Casillas	Philipp Lahm Sergio Ramos Carles Puyol Maicon	Andrés Iniesta Bastian Schweinsteiger Wesley Sneijder Xavi	David Villa Diego Forlan

Only two players have been named in three separate All-Star teams: Franz Beckenbauer of West Germany, who was included in 1966, 1970, and 1974, Djalma Santos in 1954, 1958 and 1962. 21 others have been named to two separate All-Star teams: Luis Monti (1930 and 1934; however, in 1930, he was representing Argentina while in 1934 he represented Italy); Garrincha (1958 and 1962); Pelé (1958 and 1970); Bobby Charlton (1966 and 1970); Teofilo Cubillas (1970 and 1978); Ruud Krol and Rob Rensenbrink (1974 and 1978); Berti Vogts (1974 and 1978); Paolo Rossi (1978 and 1982); Michel Platini (1982 and 1986); Diego Maradona (1986 and 1990); Paolo Maldini (1990 and 1994); Dunga (1994 and 1998); Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, and Ronaldo (1998 and 2002); Lilian Thuram and Zinedine Zidane (1998 and 2006); Michael Ballack and Miroslav Klose (2002 and 2006); and Philipp Lahm (2006 and 2010).

Pelé is the only player to be named in All-Star teams 12 years apart (1958 and 1970).

Uruguay in 1930 and 1950, Italy and Germany in 2006 and Spain in 2010 are the only teams to have had a player in every position on the All-Star Team.

Uruguay in 1930 and Italy in 2006 have the most players elected to the All-Star Team with 7 players each. However, the 1930 selection only had 11 players overall, while the 2006 seelection had 23.

35 different Brazilian players were named in All-Star teams, Brazil is also the nation with most nominations with 43 nominees.

Only two Asian players have been named in All-Star teams, Hong Myung-Bo and Yoo Sang-Chul of South Korea. Both were selected in 2002.

Only one player on the victorious 1986 Argentina team, Diego Maradona, was selected to that year's All-Star team.

Uniquely, brothers Brian Laudrup and Michael Laudrup were both selected for the All Star Team from Denmark in 1998 FIFA World Cup.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament, just like its predecessors, will churn out dollops of entertainment, football highs, football lows, celebrations and even disappointments. The 32 teams who qualified for the World Cup tournament will look to play more than just the role of tourists in picturesque South Africa. The nations of the world will wait on their heroes to perform and achieve the seemingly impossible. The blood, sweat, passion and tears of the players will make up for one thriller of a competition. To acknowledge the tremendous feats of the winning teams, FIFA as an organization, has set aside total prize money of US$420 million. The money will be awarded or distributed amongst the teams after taking into consideration their respective performances and results of the 2010 tournament. Read on to know more on the ‘Prize Money’ reserved for the winning teams of the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament.

 

Prize Money For The 2010 FIFA World Cup -

 

The prize money for the 2010 FIFA World Cup only does justice to the status and legacy of the tournament. A whopping sum of US$420 million has been set aside as the ‘Prize Money for the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament.’ The amount has been supplemented with a generous 60% increase, a far cry from what was the prize money for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Post a 24-man Executive Committee meeting at the Robben Islands, FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced that the winners or champions of the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament will receive a cash award of US$ 30 million. The runners up of the tournament will get to walk away with US$ 20million.

The General Secretary of FIFA, Jerome Valcke also announced a sum of $40 million for the top football clubs of the world. This sum is to be shared between the clubs who have their players participating at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The US$ 40 million will act as a compensation for the insurance and other expenses that the clubs will have to incur on the players playing in South Africa. "Every club who has a player at the World Cup will receive $1600 per day, per player,” proclaimed Jerome Valcke. The Secretary General also said that the money will be paid 15 days before the start of the tournament and one day after the players' participation in the World Cup ends." All 32 teams will get a sum of US$ 1million prior to the commencement of the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament.

The teams will battle it out for the Cup and the  prize money in the scenic South African cities of Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Rustenburg, Mangaung/Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth and Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth. The matches will be held over a period of one month. The 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament begins on June 11, 2010 and will build up to a glorious crescendo on July 11, 2010. Three cheers for the World Final, three cheers for the participating teams and three cheers for the host country South Africa.

 

 

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