This year's FIFA World Cup will have a two day opening ceremony that will start on Thursday night. It would feature top music artists around the world. Shakira will perform the official 2010 World Cup song, 'Waka Waka This Time for Africa' with a local Af

FIFA World Cup starts on June 11, 2010. The 32 teams from 32 different countries all over the globe will meet again in South Africa to fight for World Cup glory. The most-watched sporting event in the world will again take stage and unite people from all walks of life.

 
The 32 teams out of the World Cup qualification phase will be divided into 8 groups. In the group stage, 8 groups with 4 teams each will fight In this stage, a round-robin style tournament will be used. After this the top 2 teams of each group will move forward to the knockout stage beginning with the 2nd round, the quarter finals, the semi finals, the third-place match and the finals match.

 

This year’s FIFA World Cup will have a two day opening ceremony that will start on Thursday night. It would feature top music artists around the world. Shakira will perform the official 2010 World Cup song, “Waka Waka This Time for Africa” with a local African group Freshlyground.

 
The FIFA World Cup Kick-off Celebration Concert will be held in Orlando Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg. It will start at 8PM local time (GMT +2). The concert on Thursday night will be a charity campaign dedicated to building twenty Football for Hope Centers for public health, education and football across Africa.

 
The Friday’s actual opening ceremony before the game between the hosts and Mexico, the performances expected has not been revealed yet.

 Watch the Opening concert video here