The soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg-© SID-IMAGES/Getty Images /.Because of the bad lawn, the qualifying match between South Africa and Egypt from the World Cup final stadium soccer city in the Ellis Park in Johannesburg has been moved.
Johannesburg (SID) - only 241 days after the World Cup final is the final stadium soccer city in Johannesburg gradually to the problem child of the South African Association of SAFA. The qualifying match scheduled in the arena to the Africa Cup against Egypt had to be moved because of bad lawn in the Ellis Park in Johannesburg. Official the SAFA were shocked by the condition of the turf installed recently for converted to 155,000 euros, after the rock group U2 there gave a concert.
Since the World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands, the 80,000 spectators watched, soccer city is filled with football matches only still rarely considerably. Only to the Soweto Derby between the Orlando Pirates and the Kaizer Chiefs poured 90,000 people in the stadium. Another top game had to be cancelled because thieves had stolen power lines.
