Lee Keunho put South Korea ahead at the Seoul World Cup Stadium before Khalfan Al Khalfan equalized for the 2022 World Cup hosts.
France and Uruguay contested a truly awful goalless draw in the second match of the 2010 World Cup at the Cape Town Stadium.
"After a couple of days learning the ropes and staying out of trouble, I was offered the chance to cover one of the World Cup soccer games from Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, " Dinan recalls.
In 2009, 19 football fans died during a crush at the same stadium before a World Cup qualifier against Malawi.
And in 2000, Wrexham's Racecourse and Llanelli's Stradey Park played host to one World Cup game each, while the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff held two games.
What makes any potential tie-up all the more complex is that any stadium involved in the World Cup comes under the control of the International Rugby Board.
U.S. Soccer looks to keep players in the spotlight between the Olympics, where the Americans earned a gold medal in a 2-1 victory against Japan in front of 80, 203 fans at Wembley Stadium, and the World Cup.
Most famously of all the stadium where England won the World Cup in 1966.
With the futuristic design of the suspended glass roof and a seating capacity of 80, 000 it was used after the 1972 summer games as a key stadium for the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
Hungary will be forced to play its World Cup qualifying match against Romania in an empty stadium after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed an appeal by the Hungarian Football Federation on Tuesday.
Rio's world-famous Maracana stadium has reopened after nearly three years of renovations to prepare it for the World Cup finals in 2014.
Soldiers built one cricket stadium and renovated another for the World Cup earlier this year.
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The two sides meet again at the Millennium Stadium on 15 September in a World Cup game which is expected to decide the winners of Pool B.
The Amsterdam ArenA group has a partnership with Braskem's parent company Odebrecht and the multinational Petrobras to develop the renovated Fonte Nova stadium in Bahia state for the World Cup.
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South Africa play Bulgaria in a World Cup warm-up match in Soweto's Orlando Stadium on Monday.
Police in South Africa have taken over security at a fourth football stadium following strikes by stewards at the World Cup.
So is there any hope of Brazil lifting the World Cup trophy for a sixth time at a rebuilt Maracana stadium in two years' time?
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London Mayor Boris Johnson hopes the stadium can be used for 2015 Rugby World Cup matches, a year before West Ham is due to move in for the 2016-17 season.
According to an IRB spokeswoman, control of the stadium is handed over to the Rugby World Cup organisers 10 days before the first game at that venue and handed back two days after its final match.
"I went up to see him, took a lot of photographs of him and spent some time watching him at a match, " explained Jackson, who also produced a sculpture of England's World Cup-winning squad of 1966 which is outside Wembley Stadium.
Despite stadium construction and safety concerns, the 2010 World Cup is seen largely as a success.
The Engenhao stadium, as it is known in Brazil, has been used as Rio's main football venue, while the iconic Maracana stadium is renovated for next year's World Cup.
The first round of matches take place on the weekend of 9-11 November, three weeks after the World Cup finishes, with the final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in May.
That means Old Trafford, Anfield and the Emirates Stadium will be in high demand before the Rugby World Cup comes to town.
Ed Joyce, a member of the England team during the 2007 World Cup, is set to face his former side at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Banglaore with a natty cut and dye.
In October of that year, the Brazil-born striker, furious at being omitted from the squad to play Russia in a World Cup qualifier, sat with other unselected players, but left the stadium before the final whistle and was disciplined by the German Football Association.
Since the game went professional, Wales have claimed just three wins over the Tri-Nations sides, one against a weakened South Africa in the game to open the Millennium Stadium in 1999, two against transitional post-World Cup Australia teams in Cardiff in Wales' Grand Slam years of 2005 and 2008.
And with the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Portsmouth to be played at the venue on 15 May - as well as three Football League play-off finals, the Blue Square Premier play-off final, FA Trophy and FA Vase finals and England's World Cup warm-up match against Mexico during the month - Wembley Stadium announced on Sunday that work had begun on a new surface.
The 48, 000-capacity Mangaung Stadium in Bloemfontein is one of 10 venues for the World Cup.
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