Durban’s new 70,000-seat World Cup Soccer stadium was unveiled Thursday and is expected to be “substantially finished” by the end of 2008 with the final touches following soon after so it can be handed over in 2009 for the Confederation Cup preceding the 2010 Fifa World Cup, reports News24.com.
According to the News 24 Web site the new stadium equips the city to bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The stadium can accommodate most sports with the exception of cricket, and is integral to an active campaign to attract more international sporting events to Durban. The stadium is doughnut-shaped and has a “space-age” design with a 30-storey arch and will sit on the existing King’s Park Soccer Stadium site.
