The opening game will be played on 11 June 2010 at Johannesburg's 94, 000-seater Soccer City Stadium.
The final is scheduled to take place at the refurbished Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, which will also host other matches at Ellis Park.
Meanwhile work is under way to ensure that the two match venues in the city - Ellis Park and Soccer City - are ready on time.
The goal clearly rattled the Mexicans, particularly after they saw a replay on the big screen inside Soccer City and surrounded the guilty linesman in angry protest.
But the Burkinabe will now go into Sunday's final at Soweto's Soccer City dreaming of pulling off a triumph with Pitroipa ready to lead from the front.
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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.
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.
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 dramatic finale at Soccer City was in stark contrast to a hugely underwhelming opening 45 minutes, which was a brutal disappointment after the spectacular opening ceremony and moving appearance by former president Nelson Mandela that had preceded it.
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.
The same day five young men were killed while playing soccer in a city park.
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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.
"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 league is not affiliated with the Utah Youth Soccer Association or any city or town recreation department.
Last year, two police officers were injured during scuffles involving soccer fans in the city centre on the eve of the match.
The game was part of a "rogue league" unaffiliated with the popular Utah Youth Soccer Association or any city or town recreation department, association CEO Andrew Hiatt said.
The Yankees are partnering with Manchester City to own Major League Soccer's 20th team, which will be called New York City Football Club and plans to start play in the 2015 season.
The man charged with turning City into a soccer juggernaut is Roberto Mancini, who replaced previous boss Mark Hughes in December.
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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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Headquartered in New York City, Major League Soccer is the top-flight professional soccer league in the United States and Canada.
Back at the start of the English soccer season, oddsmakers rated Leicester City and West Ham United as favorites for promotion from the Football League Championship to the English Premier League.
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 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.
Three years ago, regime sponsored Sunni thugs attacked Kurdish soccer fans in Dayz az Zawr, a Kurdish city along the border with Iraq.
The match was played four days after Manchester City announced it will partner with the Yankees to own New York City FC, which will become Major League Soccer's 20th team in 2015.
The city wanted to fill in the wetland and build soccer and baseball fields.
Leffler and Kalish (also 34) met in 1997 playing soccer for a club in Sydney, where both attended the city's University of Technology.
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