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Charlize Theron to bring Hollywood glitz to South Africa's World Cup draw | Charlize Theron, South Africa's most glamorous export, is
being flown home to bring much-needed Hollywood glitz to the troubled preparations for the 2010 World Cup. According to The Telegraph, Theron will take up a daunting
speaking role in front of a worldwide television audience expected to reach 200
million. The Oscar-winning actress heads an A-list of celebrities, including David
Beckham, who are flying in to Cape Town to showcase the important draw on Friday
that will determine the cup's group stage. But while England fans will be watching
closely and hoping to avoid tournament heavyweights like Holland or Portugal in
any "group of death'', the draw promises to offer a welcome distraction for the
tournament's organisers. And for the country of her birth the draw will be an
iconic moment in a football odyssey which has seen it competing internationally,
banned, reinstated and now hosting the greatest sporting tournament on earth.
That its national side, known as Bafana Bafana, has only won one match in the
last six months and is the lowest-ranked team – currently 86th in the FIFA table
– ever to host the event, may partly explain why 2010 organisers are struggling
to whip up much local enthusiasm. 2010 organisers are anxious to avoid the risible
gates at the Confederations Cup held in South Africa last June when only half
of the available tickets were sold. So the South African government is resorting
to increasingly imaginative ways of overcoming the current public apathy. |
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