While the 2010 FIFA World Cup takes centre stage at the moment, there’s another football world championship heading for South Africa straight after the World Cup.

The World Football Championships for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability is due to be held from 23 August – 11 September in Limpopo. One of the venues earmarked for the event is the Peter Mokaba Stadium, currently being used for the 2010 |FIFA World Cup.

The World Championship, which takes place every four years, was first held in the Netherlands in 1994, the event will attract participants from sixteen countries – South Africa, Germany, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Egypt, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Turkey, South Korea, Portugal, Nigeria, the Netherlands and France.

The bid for the event was submitted by the South African Sports Association for the Intellectually Impaired (SASA-II) to the organising body, the International Federation for Sport for athletes with an Intellectual Disability, in 2008. South Africa is currently ranked third in the world, and hopes to improve on this standing at the forthcoming event.

SRSA is supporting the event and will be part of the event’s organising committee. More information on the event is available at the INAS-FID website.

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