Gimme more details mate about how RSA might lose it and the wordl cup is in 2010.
Malawi is in gear four sleeping about to engage fifth. Last year govt allocated 150 million MK for rehab of stadia but we are close to another budget session the only thing done at Kamuzu Stadium is the lights which are switched on day and night.

I agree with Bingiza Malawi is right ahead of everyone sleeping . We were supposed to start Preparing now by putting something in every years Budget till 2010 by then we were going to have Chichiri stadium rehabilitated .Just heard that Brazil have chosen Mozambique as their camping place .Malawi was supposed to take advantage of its known peacefulness and start courting countries to camp here.
Malawi has an edge over Mozambique coz of language
Malawi has an edge over zimbabwe coz of political instability
Our Good lake was also supposed to be used .
and etc , etc etc
And why not use MADGE to be our Tourism Ambassador to help us be known to the outside world

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At least they are doing something about it.
Am sure Abu and kinsfolk will get some jobs there.


http://www.southafrica.info/pls/cms/show_gallery_sa_info?p_gid=5892&p_site_id=38

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Have you understood game? am lost guys,is world cup changed to 2012? But I do agree that malawi is sleeping.

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bingiza wrote:

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At least they are doing something about it.
Am sure Abu and kinsfolk will get some jobs there.


http://www.southafrica.info/pls/cms/show_gallery_sa_info?p_gid=5892&p_site_id=38

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Have you understood game? am lost guys,is world cup changed to 2012? But I do agree that malawi is sleeping.

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I understand that some boys have gotten so much excited about this whole conspirancy of Malawi cashing on 2010 tournament hosted only a few hundred miles (Kamuzu anapita kumeneko pansi ali ndi zaka khumi ndi zisanu!) away by a massive attraction of the revellers as such including a possible England or some squad camping here(pa Kamuzu Stadium /Civo or Silver)....
Well, brilliant and clever thinking but coupled with wrong ideas and vain imagination....
I can never imagine Malawi standing any chance of attracting any one of the big guns with their large armies of supporters . We might have a Trinidad and Tobago or Israel camping in here and perhaps a few misguided geezers looking for weed but lets forget about the big guns. Think of it, which camping stadium , which lakeside resort, God forbids . I mean , sometimes when i look at the football pitches at the parks used for Sunday League games in London are as good as our elite and famous Kamuzu stadium itself ( and of course these parks have much better turf) , and I dont see any England /Portugal manager risking the £30million Rooney or a £40 million Ronaldo  and likes getting the 20 Tambala stamps due to the toughness and dryness of our kind of turf. ......... We have some worst stadiums at the moment and its a put off to world class players.
If you remember well there were rumous that South Africa nearly lost their appeal to host the tournament due to poor stadiums and FIFA was ready to take it back either to Germany or USA or Australia. They gave out a provisional 13 venues but still were told to build 5 new ones . So , gyuys think of it and in  Malawi unfortunately we still use that old system yodzala kapinga but today its "turf" , amadzala kwina kena kungoyala.
Last season Newcastle United spent £150,000 for a complete new surface which is almost equivalent to what Malawi Government allocate to Sports Council................................

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Pope wrote:

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Have you understood game? am lost guys,is world cup changed to 2012? But I do agree that malawi is sleeping.

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pope, sepp blatter is the current world cup president and he was quoted in one of the media that south africans are not ready to host the 2012 world cup, so they are looking at other possibilities like the united states,these could also be unfounded speculations..the best is to look it up or google it.

go to sky news or fox channels.

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The 2010 SA hosting of the world cup is on, the FIFA General Secretary, Dr Urs Linsi comments in the link below :   

http://www.fifa.com/en/worldcup/index/0,3360,135387,00.html?comp=WF&year=2010&articleid=135387

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The world cup hasn't been postponed, plans are for it to be held in 2010. It hasn't been moved from South Africa either, other venues have been identified as "contingency options" in case events (e.g. delays, natural disasters) preclude the world cup from being hosted in SA.

Eetchef, the fact that Malawi has poor facilities today is irrelevant. The question should be whether Malawi can come up with the right standard of facilities in the time available (3 yrs). Based on that, I'd say MW as a country missed the boat long ago.

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you are so right, personally i dont think malawi has the facilities enough to accomodate world cup teams especially if we cant upgrade our own sport to compete on the world stage.people forget one thing,the budget alone countries put aside during this event is enormous on malawian standards.and malawi is very poor.if our own league cant have sponsors for a certain period.

check this out.


ENGLAND has emerged as top alternative to host the 2010 World Cup.
FIFA are worried hosts South Africa will not be ready on time as there are major worries over security, stadiums and infrastructure.England has everything in place already and FIFA chief Sepp Blatter said: England can host the tournament at short notice, of that I am sure. World soccer bosses are considering other nations, with Australia an option.But SunSport can reveal Blatter has been informed FIFA could lose billions unless they stage the tournament in England if South Africa is not ready.TV rights and marketing packages have been sold on the basis of games being played around South African time and there is only one hour difference in UK summer time.A FA spokesman said: There have been no discussions with FIFA. However, should they require contingency planning we have some of the finest stadia.

And we worry about Malawian journos, this guy had ready assumptions wanted to corner Blatter into a situation.

come on guys if we cant renovate our stadiums..,why worrying...tizangokwela mafenyetsela ulendo ku mozambique and watch brazil practising

Rick
Thanks for the info link above, you are the man!!

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The probability that the World Cup 2010 WONT be staged in Africa is now almost 0.9 , and that simply reflects right into your face the true colour of the cunning Sepp Blatter. Read more about imperialism.

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i couldnt agree with you more,he is saying south africans are not ready and England is the possible altenative because of the time difference,what a load of bollocks,talking of south africas infrastructure, i thought fifa sent delegates to south africa right before they chose it as the world cup host? unless if the decision was made randomly. south africa has the best infrastructure even the freeway roads are better than the uk, talk about the townships thats a different story.