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WC 2006

Inspectors impressed with SA
ROBBEN ISLAND. South Africa. March 14: South Africa havre the infrastructure and enthusiasm to host Ihe 2006 World Cup, FIFA inspectors said Tuesday on the Final day of their visit here, reports AFP.
"We were most favourably Impressed ... the whole thing really was excellent." team leader Alan Rothenberg told reporters at the end of the inspectors' sLx-day assessment tour of South Africa.
"Clearly the Infrastructure Is In place." he said at a briefing an Robben Island, the former
prison island off Cape Town vhere the previous apartheid government detained hundreds if freedom fighters, including kelson Mandela.
"There would be a few modi-Flcations but the country has six years to make them." he added.
The team was particularly inpressed with South Africa's itadla and enthusiasm for the went. Rothenberg said.
"Everywhere we went there were smiling faces yelling at us o bring the World Cup to South Xfrlca/ he added.
The Inspectors - who have already toured other bidders 3razll. England. Germany and Morocco - would not pronounce f South Africa was completely ■eady to host the event.
"That will the bottom line of he report we submit to the •'IFA executive. We will tell hem that before we tell the rest )f the world," Rothenberg said.
South Africa's bld has stressed that the football World Cup has never been held in Africa in its 70-year history.
Rothenberg said some FIFA members "will take into account whether a continent has had a World Cup before and how long ago they had it."
Danny Jordaan, head of South Africa's bid company.
said the FIFA team's last press conference was held on Robben Island because that was where Football officials decided to make a bid for the World Cup.
"It used to be a place of despair but it became a place of lope. Now we are hoping that South Africa will get to host the .Vorld Cup in 2006." he added.
Mandela, who became South
Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994. was held on Robben Island for the sulk of his 27 years in apartheid jails.
The team met Mandela and his successor President Thabo Mbeki during their visit.
FIFA is expected to an-lounce the successful bidder on July 6.