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FIFA President Impressed By Advancements At Greenpoint Stadium In Cape Town
16 September 2008
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FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter continued his four day trip to South Africa on Monday with a visit at the construction site of Cape Town's 2010 FIFA World Cup stadium and declared himself "very impressed" with the advancements made since he last visited the stadium in June 2007, when the construction had barely started.
Blatter was in vintage form as he entered the stadium construction site cheered by enthusiastic construction workers: “It makes me very emotional when I come to the stadium, especially meeting with the workers. They are the real artists of the stadium. |
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They are working stone by stone to make sure the stadium is completed on time. Those stadiums will be a legacy for their families, for the use of their country and for all the people of Africa.”
Blatter was accompanied on his visit to the site of the picturesque Green Point World Cup stadium, on the slopes of Table Mountain and alongside Cape Town's Table Bay, by the new Premier of the Western Cape, Lynne Brown, the Executive Mayor of Cape Town, Helen Zille, as well as former President of the Republic of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner Frederick de Klerk, Tokyo Sexwale, FIFA Ambassador, and the CEO of the Local Organising Committee Danny Jordaan
On Tuesday (16 September) Blatter will visit
Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium, will open the SALOC Board meeting and have a private audience with former President of the Republic of South Africa and Nobel Peace Price Winner, Nelson Mandela, as the next stops on the FIFA President's programme. To bring the four day trip to a close, the FIFA President will give an appraisal of his impression of the preparations at Ellis Park stadium on Wednesday, 17 September before returning a courtesy visit to ANC President Jacob Zuma who had visited the FIFA President in
Zurich in March 2008. |
