Every four years, thousands of people around the world migrate to a different host city for a month to catch the FIFA World Cup. In 2010, an estimated 370,000 visitors flocked to South Africa to catch their teams in action.
Photo caption: Johannesburg - Fans of Bafana Bafana, as the South African soccer team is popularly known, watching the opening game of the World Cup on a big screen set up by FIFA in Soweto. Credit: Agência Brasil / CC BY 2.5
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» The Christian Science Monitor. "How many people actually went to the World Cup?" August 3, 2010.