The 2010 World Cup organisers also revealed that South Africans will get cheap tickets to watch the 2010 World Cup on home soil.
When the American women won the World Cup on home soil in 1999, 40m Americans (including President Clinton) tuned in to watch the game live.
Even the return of Henry Cotton to the Great Britain side was not enough to prevent the Americans from winning the Ryder Cup on British soil for the first time.
But the French are also conscious that they need to mount a successful defence of their Six Nations title to provide a springboard for the World Cup on home soil in September.
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England fought back in Saturday's Test having trailed 14-0 at half-time but were eventually undone by two late penalties to be denied a first win over the Wallabies on Australian soil since the 2003 World Cup final.
But they have suffered a marked downturn in fortunes since then and having failed to progress beyond the first round of the 2003 World Cup on home soil, they have lost 11 of their last 12 one-day internationals.
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At 21, he is an established international with Brazil and will be counted on to lead the nation in next year's World Cup on home soil, although he has also drawn criticism from Pele for some of his outings.
On 30 July 1966, Moore's dreams came true as England won the World Cup on home soil, defeating great rivals Germany in the final at Wembley -- outside of which a statue of their former captain proudly stands today.
South Africa also won the World Cup on home soil in 1995, when the then president Nelson Mandela wore the number six shirt of captain Francois Pienaar, and White said he hoped this victory would play a similar part in uniting his country.
When England won the World Cup on home soil in 1966 most of the flags being waved in the crowd were Union flags rather than St George's crosses - a tradition which remained in place by the time England made the semi-finals in Italy in 1990.
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France's celebrated victory on home soil at the 1998 World Cup, achieved by a team of black, white and Arab footballers, was widely hailed as a watershed moment for multiculturalism there, but few were still talking so complacently about social integration by the time the banlieues exploded into rioting in 2005.
At the inaugural African Amputees Nations Cup held on home soil earlier this year, they could only manage third place.
Japan came into the match off the back of their first World Cup win on foreign soil after beating Cameroon 1-0 on Monday.
The 44-year-old took charge of Bayern last July, after leading an unfancied Germany side to the 2006 World Cup semifinals on home soil.
He is joined in the front row by veteran loose-head Os du Randt, the only survivor from the Springboks' 1995 World Cup victory on home soil.
Fifa, world football's governing body, has decreed that the World Cup will be held on African soil for the first time in 2010.
And it was given extra substance by a 3-0 win over Australia on home soil in their last tournament before the World Cup.
Organisers are hoping the first World Cup to be played on African soil will produce 'Football for a Better World' and Fifa will flag up preparations on Friday at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
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The decision on the hosts for the 2010 World Cup, the first to take place on Africa soil, is expected to be made in May 2004.
Under Sebes, also of Jewish descent, Hungary became the first nation to defeat England on its home soil, winning 6-3 in 1953 before reaching the World Cup final the following year.
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