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June 13 - To mark exactly one year before the World Cup kicks off in South Africa in 2010, Dr. Danny Jordaan, Chief Executive Officer of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee, issued a statement and praised the efforts being put into the project to make it a reality.
"So many people have worked so hard to make this dream of ours a reality," he said yesterday. "Now we are ready to go from planning to playing. When we said time and time again that this World Cup is going to happen and it is going to be successful, it's been easy for people to cast doubt, because the event hasn't happened as yet. But we, as South Africans and Africans, are undoubtedly in the process of delivering."
Jordaan said that while many people turn their attention to the timelines to see whether the project will happen on time, his conviction that the World Cup will kick off "is derived from the hearts of the people who are actually doing the work".
"It's when you look at the construction workers building the stadiums, upgrading our airports and roads, the staff working on 2010 projects at the host cities at all levels of government and the staff of the Organizing Committee at SAFA House that you know this project will be a success," he said. "When you look at them and you look in their eyes, you get a sense they've all decided, 'we won't let you down, we won't let the country down', and that they're going to make this work."
"The 2010 FIFA World Cup has been talked about, debated and speculated on for so many years. And now, with one year to go to the tournament's kickoff, finally it's a given, an accepted reality," he concluded.
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