Soccer City stadium over 90% completed
Thursday, 04 June 2009 - Courtesy SA The Good News http://www.sagoodnews.co.za



The flagship stadium, Soccer City - near Soweto, that will be the venue for the opening match of the 2010 FIFA (tm) 2010 World Cup, is about 92% complete, reported the stadium's project director, Mike Moody.

“The stadium construction is progressing well and ready for handover in October. We are busy with touch-ups in the interior and all the externals such as parking and the roads will be finished in December, in time for January 2010 completion deadline,” he said.

Moody said during a site visit that the construction of Soccer City only cost one quarter of what it did to build the new Wembley football stadium in London.

“What they did in five years, we are doing in two.”

Once completed, the 94 000-seater Soccer City will be one of the biggest stadiums ever built for a soccer World Cup event and will be by far the biggest in Africa.

Read the full story at Engineering News http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/soccer-city-stadium-is-over-90-complete-2009-06-03