Friday, May 28, 2010
Accommodations
Occommodations in South Africa will need to be planned out early. Our first game will be against Nigeria and it is in Johannesburg on June 12. Our training field is in Pretoria wich is not far away from Johannesburg where our fist game will be. A good hotel there would be the Gauteng, which is close to Johannesburg, or one that is closer to Pretoria, and if we play farther away we will most likely change hotels to our accommodations. We will fly into the Johannesburg airport, or grand central airport, which is right next to our hotel and soccer field. Hotels in Argentina are clustered near the coast. We have bigger cities than south Africa and more hotels. Accommodations during the World Cup are scarce. Many hotels are already fully booked and few rooms are available. Public transportation in South Africa will be a problem too. We have better transportation so we will have to adjust. Ground support will be the hardest accommodation. Rental cars may be difficult or impossible to make if you don't arrange them in advance. People are clustered in hotels nears the fields and the main cities. Our team has reserved a flight and a hotel, but other teams and fans who haven't reserved a spot, will be rushed and might not get what they wanted. Our home country of Argentina is better but our hotel are still clustered on the coast and our ground transortation is okay. We have bigger and more airports, making easier and more accommodations for people and fans, but we will get to South Africa as soon and easily as possible.
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Well, seems like south africa is going to be packed for a while. Whith the FIfa cup their the population has probably increased 15%. The team seems to be using our new ways of transportation to their advantage which is good and bad because it creates waste.
ReplyDeleteFIFA will have arranged accommodations for the individual teams of the World Cup since this is the Grandest Stage of the All and certainly every team must be taken care of with the highest of quality, almost presidential or royalty. This is of course in contrast to the Polska Liga where the competition isn't as highly regarded and the players are not paid a respectable salary, thus leaving transportation costs to the individual teams. However this is the World Cup and the players regarded are of the highest of classes in terms of soccer and must be provided with the finest of hotels and transportation services to ensure that the most watched event in sports history is not compromised by a team's inability to make it to a match.
ReplyDeleteThe world cup will create a lot of traffic in South Africa which could make the team late for their game. With the cup only 9 days away many people in school going to the world cup will miss the last week or so of school. Generally this last week of school is when finals are held which can hurt a significant amount of grades. it might have been better for this to be held a little later in summer so more students grades are hurt. It is the kids that will make the game bigger but if it hurts them they will be less likely to promote it later on in life.
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