Nelson Mandela was reunited with the World Cup trophy on Thursday, six years after he was famously pictured with soccer's greatest prize on the day South Africa won the right to host the event. The 91-year-old former president met with FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke and chief local organizer Danny Jordaan, who brought the 18-carat, solid gold trophy to the Nelson Mandela Foundation buildings in Johannesburg. The meeting was held in private, with no journalists present. Valcke said...Read Full Story
The official 2010 FIFA World Cup ticket was unveiled earlier, on the 9th April 2010, by FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke and Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan at Maponya Mall in Soweto.
The official 2010 FIFA World Cup ticket
The tickets will be made available to the general public in a week’s time, on 15th April 2010, when the fifth and final ticketing sales phase kicks off.
This will coincide with the opening of the FIFA World Cup ticketing centres in all nine host cities...Read Full Story
The top South African World Cup organizer says his country is prepared to have President Barack Obama visit during the tournament. Obama met last summer at the White House with FIFA president Sepp Blatter, and South African officials have said Obama has told them he might try to attend if his schedule allows. "I think it would be wonderful it he comes," Danny Jordaan, the South African organizing committee's chief executive officer, said Wednesday during an interview with The Associated Press...Read Full Story
Despite noticeable pockets of empty seats at many World Cup games, the chief executive of the local organizing committee thinks the tournament could surpass the 3 million mark in paid attendance. With eight games still to be played, paid attendance is already at 2.69 million people, Danny Jordaan said Thursday. "The signs are there," Jordaan said. "The South African fans have been superb. The spirit inside the country has been one of the outstanding features of this World Cup." However, FIFA...Read Full Story
Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu promised FIFA top brass a first class pass to heaven if they granted then-World Cup hopeful South Africa the host bid, a top organising official said on Monday. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate had told South African organisers that he would only support a bribe-free South African bid, Danny Jordaan told the CNN Global Forum. "Then we had our first meeting with the FIFA executive and Archbishop Tutu said: If you vote for us, I will make sure that you get a first...Read Full Story
Well! The theme for the recently concluded Metropolitan Council of African Football Associations (COSAFA) Under-20 Youth Cup in neighbouring Botswana was, 'Where legends are born' and they certainly came in all sorts of sizes, thick and fast, my ...
The late withdrawal of leading 2010 World Cup official Danny Jordaan from a contest to head football in the sub-continent completed a disastrous year for South Africa on and off the field. Jordaan, warmly praised after a successful 2010 World Cup in his ...
The late withdrawal of leading 2010 World Cup official Danny Jordaan from a contest to head soccer in the sub-continent completed a disastrous year for South Africa on and off the field. Jordaan, warmly praised after a successful 2010 World Cup in his ...
AFPHumiliation for South Africa on and off the fieldAFPJOHANNESBURG — The late withdrawal of leading 2010 World Cup official Danny Jordaan from a contest to head football in the sub-continent completed a disastrous year for South Africa on and off the field. Jordaan, warmly praised after a successful 2010 ...Jordaan saved from embarrassmentSowetanall 39 news articles »
Daniel Alexander "Danny" Jordaan (born September 3, 1951) is a South African sports administrator as well as a former lecturer, politician and anti-apartheid activist.
FIFA has declared South Africa officially ready to host the first major FIFA tournament on African soil. Dr. Danny Jordaan, the Chief Executive Officer of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee took time out to discuss the progress made in the ...