The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

Nobody is offered a World Cup.

Take on the confront of leading your home nation from qualification right through to a virtual re-creation of the fifa world cup Final and feel what it is like to score the goal that lifts a nation. Every four years the football world gets mutually for the first showing tournament in the sport, and the World Cup 2010 football tournament is shaping up to be an exciting one.

The World Cup is a truly International event.

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.