n Management Today - Leadership challenges for the World Cup : a South African perspective

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Extracted from text ... F Leadership challenges for the World Cup: a South African perspective Wikus van Vuuren is director, academic quality at the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology. FIFA's announcement that the Soccer World Cup would be hosted on African soil for the first time since it's inception in 1930 makes perfect sense seeing as soccer is by far the largest sport played on the continent. The country chosen to host the event was South Africa - arguably the African country with the best potential and infrastructure to host an event of such magnitude. After the initial excitement that could be ..