The ball is white, accentuated with bold black lines and detailed with typical Ndebele designs in red, yellow, green and blue.

On 8 July 2008, however, Port Elizabeth withdrew as a host city because its stadium was deemed unlikely to meet the 30 March 2009 deadline for completion.

[8] The Nelson Mandela Bay stadium was subsequently completed before the Confederations Cup and was opened on 7 June 2009.

It acted as a venue for the 2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa on 16 June.

Source: FIFA[12] Tim Howard Joan Capdevila Carles Puyol Lúcio Maicon Kaká Mohamed Aboutrika Clint Dempsey David Villa Fernando Torres Luís Fabiano Source: FIFA[13] Luís Fabiano received the Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals.