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Jordaan: PE is ready for 2010

2009-11-16 14:29
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Johannesburg - FIFA World Cup 2010 local organising committee (LOC) chairperson Danny Jordaan has praised the Nelson Mandela Stadium for its hosting of Bafana's game against Japan.

Jordaan feels the Port Elizabeth stadium showed that it was ready for next year's World Cup after successfully hosting the international friendly.

Jordaan told the Herald Online: "We are happy that the stadium is ready for the World Cup. From the (LOC's) standpoint ... everything went off well.

"The stadium's operational readiness had to be tested because we wanted to check if everything would work well under a maximum crowd."

Jordaan went on to praise the 44 000 people who attended the game (a record crowd in Port Elizabeth).

"I must say, the crowd was wonderful.

"History was made in Eastern Cape soccer when we had the biggest crowd ever during the international friendly, and it bodes well for the metro to have the game here. The media, the public and the business sector have played a huge role," he concluded. 

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