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Colors Of FIFA 2010

2010-06-15T21:22:00.000-07:00

Host Country May Look Forward To the 2nd Round

2010-06-13T22:13:00.000-07:00

After their 1-1 draw against Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg, the tiny midfielder of South Africa Siphiwe Tshabalala informed that the host country may look ahead to the second round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup if they beat Uruguay in Pretoria on Wednesday.

France failed to set the World Cup 2010 on fire with their goalless draw against Uruguay and now in order to look forward they must win their next Group A match against Mexico.

In spite of some superb save from Super Eagles goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, Argentina won the match 1-0 against Nigeria on Saturday at Ellis Park. After this match Diego Maradona informed that the South Americans will not going to fear any opponent at the FIFA World Cup 2010 during their journey for the third global title.

Germany snatches a 4-0 victory over Australia in their opening game which relieved their Coach Joachim Low who believes that his team can get even better.

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FIFA 2010 Glances

2010-06-09T22:06:00.000-07:00

Famous Pop Singer Shakira to perform the theme song of World Cup

FIFA World Cup 2010 starts on 10th June 10, 2010 at 8pm local time at the newly-renovated Orlando Stadium in Soweto/Johannesburg, South Africa. In the opening ceremony famous Pop singer Shakira will perform the FIFA World Cup theme song “Waka Waka” or This Time for Africa. Other celebrity singers such as Alicia keys, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas etc will also grace the grand opening ceremony by their performances.

Swiss captain got an ankle injury

Swiss captain Alex Frei has got an ankle injury which might be a little serious and left his Swiss fans worried that it may cause his exclusion from the Switzerland football team of the World Cup.

Marcello Lippi is angry

Italian coach Marcello Lippi is angry with the Italian critics after hearing that his Squad is little too old to be competing for a World Cup and asked the critics to at least give his team a chance to prove themselves.

Oguchi Onyewu will play full 90 minutes

USA defender Oguchi Onyewu is ready to play full ninety minutes against England though he is not playing ninety minutes since last October.

FIFA World Cup 2010 Video Game

2010-06-04T23:38:00.000-07:00

The official video game for FIFA World Cup 2010 is “2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa” which is published by EA Sports.

Simon Humber, one of the producers of the game announced it on 26th January 2010 and it was released on 27th April, 2010 in North America. 199 teams that took part in the qualification round are included in the game. A playable demo version of the game was released for Xbox 360 and PS 3 on 8th April 2010. This version of the game features the new two button control method aimed to make the game friendlier to the users who are new to the FIFA Series and ability to upload video replays to EA Football World.

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Current FIFA World Rankings

2010-06-02T21:23:00.000-07:00

FIFA declared the ranking system of FIFA World Rankings for men's national football team on 26th May 2010 which is at present led by Brazil. This ranking system was 1st introduced in 1992 and six teams have obtained the top position till today. They are Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Among them Brazil have spent longest time in the top position.

There is also a point system in which some points are awarded to the teams on the basis of the result of FIFA recognized matches. Under the current system, rankings are given evaluating a team’s performance over the past four years, where more recent results and more significant matches are given high preferences to recognize the present competitive state of a team.

Top 25 Rankings as of 26 May 2010

1. Brazil with 1611 points
2. Spain with 1565 points
3. Portugal with 1249 points
4. Netherlands with 1231 points
5. Italy with 1184 points
6. Germany with 1082 points
7. Argentina with 1076 points
8. England with 1068 points
9. France with 1044 points
10. Croatia with 1041 points
11. Russia with 1015 points
12. Egypt with 967 points
13. Greece with 964 points
14. United States with 957 points
15. Serbia with 947 points
16. Uruguay with 899 points
17. Mexico with 895 points
18. Chile with 888 points
19. Cameroon with 887 points
20. Australia with 886 points
21. Nigeria with 883 points
22. Norway with 882 points
23. Ukraine with 875 points
24. Switzerland with 866 points
25. Slovenia with 860 points

FIFA World Cup 2010

2010-05-28T21:14:00.000-07:00

The premier international football tournament, 19th FIFA World Cup will be held between 11th June and 11th July this year in South Africa. The qualification process starts on August 2007 and involved 204 teams out of 208 FIFA national teams.

This is the first time an African country has been chosen by FIFA to host this prestigious tournament. Africa was chosen as the host because of the policy to rotate the event among football confederations. But this policy was later abandoned in 2007. During the process to choose the host of the 2010 World Cup five African nations placed their bids. They are Egypt, Libya/Tunisia (co-hosting), Morocco, and South Africa. After Libya/Tunisia withdrew from the bidding process following the decision of the FIFA Executive Committee not to allow co-hosted tournaments, South Africa was awarded the rights to host the tournament, defeating Morocco and Egypt. South Africa got total 14 votes where Morocco got 10 and Egypt 0.

On 17th March 2006, FIFA officially announced the venues used for World Cup 2010, they are: Bloemfontein (Free State Stadium), Cape Town (Cape Town Stadium), Durban (Moses Mabhida Stadium), Johannesburg (two Venues) (Soccer City and Ellis Park Stadium), Kimberley, Nelspruit (Mbombela Stadium), Orkney, Polokwane (Peter Mokaba Stadium), Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium), Pretoria (Loftus Versfeld Stadium) and Rustenburg (Royal Bafokeng Stadium).

Five new stadiums have been built for the tournament, and five of the existing venues are to be upgraded. Construction costs are expected to be R8.4bn.

FIFA selected the following referees to officiate at the World Cup:

AFC:

Khalil Al Ghamdi from Saudi Arabia
Ravshan Irmatov from Uzbekistan
Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh from Malaysia
Yuichi Nishimura from Japan

CAF

Koman Coulibaly from Mali
Jerome Damon from South Africa
Eddy Maillet from Seychelles

CONCACAF

Joel Aguilar from El Salvador
Benito Archundia from Mexico
Carlos Batres from Guatemala
Marco Antonio Rodríguez from Mexico

CONMEBOL

Héctor Baldassi from Argentina
Jorge Larrionda from Uruguay
Pablo Pozo from Chile
Óscar Ruiz from Colombia
Carlos Simon from Brazil
Martín Vázquez from Uruguay

OFC

Michael Hester from New Zealand
Peter O'Leary from New Zealand

UEFA

Olegário Benquerença from Portugal
Massimo Busacca from Switzerland
Frank De Bleeckere from Belgium
Martin Hansson from Sweden
Viktor Kassai from Hungary
Stephane Lannoy from France
Roberto Rosetti from Italy
Wolfgang Stark from Germany
Alberto Undiano Mallenco from Spain
Howard Webb from England

Groups Of FIFA World Cup 2010

2010-05-19T22:53:00.000-07:00

Group A:

South Africa
Mexico
Uruguay
France

Group B:

Argentina
Nigeria
Korea Republic
Greece

Group C:

England
USA
Algeria
Solvenia

Group D:

Germany
Serbia
Australia
Ghana

Group E:

Netherlands
Japan
Cameroon
Denmark

Group F:

Italy
New Zealand
Slovakia
Paraguay

Group G:

Cote d'Ivoire
Brazil
Portugal
Korea DPR

Group H:

Honduras
Spain
Chile
Switzerland

Basanta Utsav of Shantiniketan

2010-03-23T02:00:00.000-07:00

Basanta Utsav. This is a World famous festival of Rabindranath Tagore's Shantiniketan to enjoy the season Spring. It is the festival of colors, music, dance and overall entertainment with the feeling of togetherness.

Indian Classical Dance

2010-03-19T23:05:00.000-07:00

Natya Shastra was a very popular form of performing art in ancient India. The Classical dance of modern India also came from this art. The term “Classical” whose Sanskrit synonym is “Shastriya” was bring in by “Sangeet Natak Akademi” to describe this Natya Shastra based art style. The most important characteristics of Indian Classical Dance is the use of “mudra” or the hand gestures as a short hand sign language to narrate the story and also to show certain objects, nature, emotions etc. Many classical dances include facial expressions as an integral part of the dance form.

According to Sangeet Natak Akademi there are eight form of Indian Classical Dance:

1. Bharatanatyam - Tamil Classical Dance
2. Odissi - Oriya Classical dance
3. Kuchipudi - Telugu Classical dance
4. Manipuri - Manipuri Classical Dance
5. Mohiniaattam - Malayali Classical Dance
6. Sattriya - Assamese Classical Dance
7. Kathakali - Malayali Classical Dance
8. Kathak - Hindi Classical Dance

Other dances yet to be awarded as Classical Dances, whose theories can also be traced back to the Natya Shastra are-

1. Gaudiya Nritya - Bengali Art Dance
2. Andhra Natyam - Telugu Art Dance
3. Vilasini Nrityam/Natyam - Telugu Art Dance

The Women Who Changed American Modern Dancing

2010-03-19T22:11:00.000-07:00

Since late 1920's, three women had changed the space of American dance: Helen Tamiris, Martha Graham, and Doris Humphrey.

Tamiris rise up as a renounced ballet dancer. She was a political mutineer, as well. As a child, Helen studied "Interpretative Dancing" with Irene Lewisohn and Blanche Talmud, and at fifteen she joined the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.

Helen was a candid young woman with a obstinate streak. Her openness prevented her higher education. After she made a street-corner speech opposing America's entry into World War I, her shocked principal told her that, as punishment, her diploma would be withheld from her. Her stubbornness was reflected in her dissatisfaction with both ballet and Interpretative Dancing.