Qualla: 2010 FIFA World Cup https://qualla.com/2010-fifa-world-cup en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/s/z/2010-fifa-world-cup-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: 2010 FIFA World Cup https://qualla.com/2010-fifa-world-cup 2010 FIFA World Cup: Introduction https://qualla.com/2010-fifa-world-cup/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. The sound came first. Long before the matches mattered, the world heard South Africa 2010 as a vast, droning hum, the noise of a million plastic vuvuzelas blown in stadiums from Cape Town to Johannesburg. Commentators complained; broadcasters tried to filter it out; nobody could stop it. It was the soundtrack of the first FIFA World Cup ever staged on the African continent, a tournament South Africa had been told, more than once, it could not pull off. From 11 June to 11 July 2010, across ten stadiums in nine cities, it pulled it off anyway.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/s/z/2010-fifa-world-cup-wp/kesz-2010-fifa-world-cup-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full 2010 FIFA World Cup: Mandela's Bid https://qualla.com/2010-fifa-world-cup/ Photo credit Mart Bouter, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hosting rights came down to a vote in Zürich on 15 May 2004, restricted that year to African nations as part of a short-lived policy to rotate the World Cup between continents. South Africa, which had narrowly lost the 2006 bid, won this time with 14 votes to Morocco's 10. The de...

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