{"id":10496,"date":"2012-05-04T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/soccer-south-africa-name-host-cities-for-next-nations-cup\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:34:09","slug":"soccer-south-africa-name-host-cities-for-next-nations-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-south-africa-name-host-cities-for-next-nations-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-South Africa name host cities for next Nations Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PRETORIA<\/span> May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Soccer City in Johannesburg will<br \/>\nhold the opening game and final of next year&#8217;s African Nations<br \/>\nCup finals, the South African sports minister Fikile Mbalula<br \/>\nsaid on Friday as all the host cities were announced.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the 16-team tournament will be played in Durban,<br \/>\nNelspruit, Port Elizabeth and Rustenburg, which were all venues<br \/>\nfor the 2010 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But new stadiums built for the World Cup in Cape Town and<br \/>\nPolokwane have been left out, it was announced at a government<br \/>\nbriefing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town had been the only proposed venue to publicly raise<br \/>\nobjections to being asked to pay around 22 million rand ($2.85<br \/>\nmillion) for the right to host matches.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The South African Football Association needs more than 100<br \/>\nmillion rand to finance the hosting of the three-week tournament<br \/>\nnext Jan. 19-Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The controversy over the funding of the tournament has seen<br \/>\nthe announcement of the host cities delayed three times.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mbalula provided no clarity on the solution to the funding<br \/>\nissue, but said the government would meet with the cities soon<br \/>\nfor talks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>($1 = 7.7225 South African rand)<br \/>\n(Reporting by Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by Mark<br \/>\nMeadows)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Soccer City in Johannesburg will hold the opening game and final of next year&#8217;s African Nations Cup finals, the South African sports minister Fikile Mbalula said on Friday as all the host cities were announced. The rest of the 16-team tournament will be played in Durban, Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}