{"id":288303,"date":"2011-03-03T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/03\/sepp-blatter-2010-world-cup-a-stunning-financial-success-for-south-africa-fifa\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:13:00","slug":"sepp-blatter-2010-world-cup-a-stunning-financial-success-for-south-africa-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/sepp-blatter-2010-world-cup-a-stunning-financial-success-for-south-africa-fifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepp Blatter: 2010 World Cup a stunning financial success for South Africa &#038; Fifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Max De Luca<\/h3>\n<h4>3 Mar 2011 18:13:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"61.7226463104\">\n<div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FIFA Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/d93c8553118114_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>FIFA Logo<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"17\"><\/p>\n<p>        Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced on Thursday that the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was a stunning financial success.<\/p>\n<p>The first World Cup ever to take place on African soil was a cash cow for Fifa, pushing their revenues above $4 billion (\u00a32.4bn). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am the happiest man to announce that the World Cup in South Africa was a huge financial success for everybody, for Africa, for South Africa and for FIFA,&#8221; he said, according to <em>AFP<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time in FIFA&#8217;s four-year accounts we are over $4bn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A huge chunk of the revenue, \u00a32.24bn, was earned in relation to the World Cup last summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/d93c8553118114_news-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2931\/go-global\/2011\/03\/03\/2377951\/sepp-blatter-2010-world-cup-a-stunning-financial-success-for\" title=\"Sepp Blatter: 2010 World Cup a stunning financial success for South Africa &amp; Fifa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sepp Blatter: 2010 World Cup a stunning financial success for South Africa &amp; Fifa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Max De Luca 3 Mar 2011 18:13:00 FIFA Logo Related Links Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced on Thursday that the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was a stunning financial success. The first World Cup ever to take place on African soil was a cash cow for Fifa, pushing their revenues above $4 billion (\u00a32.4bn). &#8220;I am the happiest man to announce that the World Cup in South Africa was a huge financial success for everybody, for Africa, for South Africa and for FIFA,&#8221; he said, according to AFP . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sepp Blatter: 2010 World Cup a stunning financial success for South Africa &amp; Fifa - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/sepp-blatter-2010-world-cup-a-stunning-financial-success-for-south-africa-fifa\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sepp Blatter: 2010 World Cup a stunning financial success for South Africa &amp; Fifa - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Max De Luca 3 Mar 2011 18:13:00 FIFA Logo Related Links Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced on Thursday that the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was a stunning financial success. 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