Meanwhile work is under way to ensure that the two match venues in the city - Ellis Park and Soccer City - are ready on time.
"New York is a legendary sports town, as well as a thriving global city with a rapidly expanding soccer fan-base, " Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano said in a statement.
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The opening game will be played on 11 June 2010 at Johannesburg's 94, 000-seater Soccer City Stadium.
SINGAPORE Singaporean authorities, under foreign pressure to act against an alleged international soccer match-fixing syndicate in the city-state, are stepping up their probe into the alleged crime ring.
Their performance was more in keeping with their passionate second-half display at Soccer City rather than their nervous first 45 minutes, but they were unable to pose enough of a threat to trouble their superior opponents.
The allegation is part of Singapore's first prosecution of soccer corruption offenses since the city-state was named in February by European investigators as a base for a global crime ring that was fixing hundreds of matches across the world.
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At the end of normal time, the game remained scoreless, as the dropping temperatures and deadlock in the match served to quiet the sell-out crowd in the Soccer City Stadium.
He featured in only one of South Africa's four warm-up matches last month, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2-1 win over Colombia at Soccer City on 27 May.
Headquartered in New York City, Major League Soccer is the top-flight professional soccer league in the United States and Canada.
"We are pleased to be associated with this major move by MLS to increase its presence in the New York market and to enhance the opportunity for New York soccer fans to enjoy high-level play in their own city, " Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said in a statement.
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Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat-trick as Argentina saw off South Korea at Soccer City to all but book their place in the last 16 of the World Cup.
SINGAPORE Singapore's anticorruption agency said Wednesday that it is investigating three Lebanese soccer officials who were due to referee a match in the city-state, which has been at the center of a recent global match-fixing probe.
Then, in one of English soccer's most stunning comebacks, City scored twice in stoppage time to win 3-2 and claim its first top-flight crown in 44 years.
Singapore's investigation of the officials comes weeks after the city-state's police said they were boosting efforts to tackle soccer corruption, following allegations from international investigators that a global crime ring was fixing hundreds of soccer matches out of its base in Singapore.
Portsmouth defender Aaron Makoena - who became the first South African to reach 100 caps in the 5-0 friendly win over Guatemala on Monday - was also picked by the World Cup hosts, who open the tournament at Soccer City against Mexico in a Group A clash on 11 June.
Two utterly soul-crushing ties with our gentle, soccer-impaired neighbor to the north have been balanced out with wins against Italy and Mexico (in Mexico City, a first).
The turmoil in Port Said, located on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Suez Canal, started on Jan. 26, after a court issued death sentences against 21 defendants mostly Port Said residents for involvement in a deadly soccer riot in the city in February 2012 that killed 74 people, mostly fans of a rival Cairo soccer club, Al-Ahly.
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