Who paid for the WC Stadiums?

[Horns11]

I was browsing through the WC web sites and looked through all of the pitches, and noticed that each one had some sort of hefty price tag. Not just like $30 million renovations (like the Cotton Bowl for TX/OU), but like 10 times that amount for some of the stadiums.

Is this primarily funded by corporations? The South African government? Does FIFA have input in which monies go where?

I know the U.S. had a few renovations to make to host the 1994 Cup, but it didn't seem as "grand" as the scale of money being spent for this one. Is it just the changing of the times? African pride? Maybe I'm missing something.

 

[l00p]

I am pretty sure that FIFA pumped most of the money in. What is cool about all of this is the poor will be more poor when this is over, subject to horrendous human rights violations while this goes on, get jack **** out of the money raised which goes to the rich or pumped to out of continent corporations. Isn't that just awesome! S. Africa really deserves this event being the fantastic country it is.

I will watch the WC but still want to heave.

 

[Horns11]

That's sort of what I'm implying. I can't see how South Africa could either raise these funds or accept these funds without some sort of fundamental strings attached, like using the revenues from the WC to help people across the country. But it seems as though every stadium is part of a master plan to help out white neighborhoods at a tremendous cost.

I could see if companies like Nike or Coca Cola or whoever had campaigns to get a lot of the money there, and then just spend it all on stadiums, but I'm a bit concerned if that's not the case.