The south African president was invited after the invitation of Barak Obama for the world cup football 2010

The first head of state to be invited was American President, Barrack Obama. It was only recently that African presidents were invited, largely to position the event as an African World Cup. In this FIFA world cup 2010, Obama was invited nearly 12 months ago, while invitations for African leaders were only sent recently. This may sound really strange.

It was South Africa and NOT Africa that won the bid to host the first World Cup to be hosted on the continent. Neither Germany which hosted the 2006 event, branded it as a European event, nor Japan and South Korea called it an Asian tournament despite it being hosted in the continent for the first time. But there are something which are unfair to Africans. So a question may definitely come in our mind whether it is an African’s world cup or not.