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The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national 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.
The match ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup final, revealed on 20 April 2010, was the Jo'bulani, a gold version of the Adidas Jabulani ball used for every other match in the tournament. [6] The name of the ball is a reference to "Jo'burg", a common nickname for Johannesburg , the match venue. [ 6 ]
France Football, the sponsor of Golden Ball and Ballon d'Or, selected the best player of the 1966 FIFA World Cup at that time with L'Équipe, and Bobby Charlton became the winner. [ 25 ] After the 1978 World Cup , Argentinian magazine El Gráfico held a survey for the best player of the tournament.
Golden Balls, a 2007–2009 British daytime TV game show; The Golden Ball, a 1987–2007 novel trilogy by Heorhiy Pocheptsov; The Golden Ball and Other Stories, a 1971 short-story collection by Agatha Christie
It was announced on 4 December 2009 that the Jabulani was to be the official match ball of the 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa. [2] The ball was also used as the match ball for the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, and a special version of the ball, the Jabulani Angola, was the match ball of the 2010 African Cup of ...
First fully synthetic FIFA World Cup ball and first hand-sewed ball [5] 1990: Etrusco Unico [5] 1994: Questra [15] [5] 1998: Tricolore: First multi-coloured ball at a World Cup finals tournament. [5] 1999 (women) Icon: First ball specifically created for a Women's World Cup. Technically identical to the Tricolore, but with a different visual ...
On 11 February 2020, in Group G of the 2020 AFC Cup, Joshua Grommen of Ceres-Negros F.C. scored the second goal of their game against Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng FC by diverting the ball into the net with his hand. Despite vocal protests from the opposing side, the goal was given as officials had failed to notice the blatant handball.
At the end of each World Cup, awards are presented to the players and teams for accomplishments other than their final team positions in the tournament. There are five post-tournament awards from the FIFA Technical Study Group: [131] [132] Diego Maradona (holding the World Cup) received the Golden Ball for best player at the 1986 World Cup.