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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup 00:01:58 1 Host selection 00:03:55 1.1 Bribery and corruption 00:04:56 2 Qualification 00:07:50 2.1 List of qualified teams 00:08:06 3 Preparations 00:09:06 3.1 Construction strike 00:09:59 4 Prize money 00:12:00 5 Venues 00:13:28 5.1 Team base camps 00:13:59 6 Final draw 00:14:57 7 Opening ceremony 00:15:06 8 Referees 00:15:39 9 Squads 00:17:09 10 Match summary 00:17:46 11 Group stage 00:19:58 11.1 Group A 00:20:06 11.2 Group B 00:20:14 11.3 Group C 00:20:22 11.4 Group D 00:20:30 11.5 Group E 00:20:38 11.6 Group F 00:20:46 11.7 Group G 00:20:54 11.8 Group H 00:21:02 12 Knockout stage 00:21:47 12.1 Round of 16 00:24:09 12.2 Quarter-finals 00:24:58 12.3 Semi-finals 00:25:25 12.4 Third place play-off 00:25:46 12.5 Final 00:27:42 13 Statistics 00:27:51 13.1 Goalscorers 00:30:01 13.2 Discipline 00:30:21 13.3 Final standings 00:30:48 14 Awards 00:30:56 14.1 Main awards 00:31:21 14.2 Dream Team 00:32:25 15 Marketing 00:32:33 15.1 Mascot 00:33:06 15.2 Official song 00:33:55 15.3 Match ball 00:35:36 15.4 Vuvuzelas 00:36:35 16 Sponsorship 00:36:53 17 Event effects 00:37:01 17.1 Social 00:37:58 17.1.1 Resettlement and eviction 00:39:14 17.2 Economy 00:41:14 17.3 Quality 00:41:47 18 Media 00:41:56 18.1 Broadcasting 00:44:15 18.2 Filming 00:44:56 18.3 Video games 00:45:32 18.4 FIFA Fan Fest 00:45:59 19 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8992061459110392 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations. In 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals.The matches were played in 10 stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the opening and final played at the Soccer City stadium in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg. Thirty-two teams were selected for participation via a worldwide qualification tournament that began in August 2007. In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These 16 teams advanced to the knockout stage, where three rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final. In the final, Spain, the European champions, defeated the Netherlands (third-time losing finalists) 1–0 after extra time, with Andrés Iniesta's goal in the 116th minute giving Spain their first world title. Spain became the eighth nation to win the tournament and the first European nation to win a World Cup hosted outside its home continent: all previous World Cups held outside Europe had been won by South American nations. They are also the only national team since 1978 to win a World Cup after losing a game in the group stage. As a result of their win, Spain represented the World in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. Host nation South Africa and both 2006 World Cup finalists Italy and France were all eliminated in the first round of the tournament. It was the first time that the hosts had been eliminated in the first round. New Zealand, with their three draws, were the only undefeated team in the tournament, but they were also eliminated in the first round. |