The 2010 World Cup kicks off in 10 days

In ten days it all kicks off, but before then teams will be arriving and teams will be playing final warm up matches. Today, the USA arrive in South Africa and this week Korea DPR, England, Paraguay, Mexico, Chile, France, Korea Republic, Uruguay, Nigeria, Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal, New Zealand, Greece and Algeria all arrive. It will be a busy week for the airport.

We will also learn of every player coming to South Africa this week as deadline day to submit squad lists is tomorrow and while a few have confirmed to the press, we will not know for certain until Friday - which is when FIFA release the squad lists from each country.

So, if you are a fan of the World Cup - you could say that this week is going to be a busy week.

Which leads us to the point of this post and throughout the World Cup we will be daily blogging on Twitter from team hotels, team training centres, stadiums and matches from South Africa here so for all the latest updates, you know what you have to do.

We will also be following every match and every team, with each country getting a dedicated team team that will start to populate with team specific information the day the World Cup kicks off.

Finally and seeing as it is ten days until the World Cup kicks off, we are making lists. Today, the list is; 10 World Cup facts. It is just for fun.
Ten World Cup facts

* Brazil - most appearances at the World Cup - 18 in total
* Brazil - most wins with five
* 75 — number of countries that have played at the World Cup
* 7 - the most final appearances - shared between Brazil and Germany
* 15 - most World Cup goals. Ronaldo with 15 from 1998 to 2006
* 199,854 - is the highest attendance for a World Cup match. Uruguay v Brazil in 1950
* 1929 - the year FIFA awarded Uruguay the rights to hold the first World Cup
* 25 - the most World Cup games played - by German Lothar Matthaus
* 56 — the quickest read card at the World Cup. Uruguay's Jose Batista v Scotland in 1986
* 1 - this year will be the first time ever the World Cup is staged in Africa