It was a sunny day in Johannesburg on World Cup stoppage day. Old Du, a Chinese fan who has lived here for nearly 30 years, led a reporter to the press center at Soccer City Stadium, where a soccer field separated by a fence was occasionally seen along the roadside. Lao Du said Johannesburg has two South African Premier League clubs - Orlando Pirates and Caesar's Chiefs. "These are the two best teams in South Africa, and they usually play their league matches at Ellis Park Stadium and Soccer City Stadium, where the crowds usually don't exceed 10,000 people. However, these two stadiums have held cricket matches and rugby matches before, so if it's a big game, the crowd will be bigger."

Ellis Park Stadium and Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg are the city's two main sporting centers. All the city's school soccer fields are also open to the public, in addition to numerous private soccer fields of a club nature. Said Lao Duc: "In fact, there are many places where you can play soccer in Jo'burg, so I don't know if these two renovated stadiums will host higher profile soccer matches after the World Cup is over."

Du's Chinese team has long played at the Italian Club. He believes Ellis Park and Soccer City won't suffer much after the World Cup because of their ability to host rugby matches. "These two stadiums will certainly not be idle, but it's hard to say about the other stadiums in the city. They were raised before the World Cup, but there was no follow-up."

In fact, just as the World Cup's 1/8 finals reached their third leg, former owner of long-struggling South African soccer's second-tier league, Bay United's Pitjana, formally announced that the club had been bought out and that the team would be moving en masse as the new owners were not optimistic about the prospects of the team's presence in Port Elizabeth. According to the team's head coach, Moi, the team's move means that more than 30 players and 10 staff members from the former club are facing career choices. "There is no more professional soccer club in Port Elizabeth and the Mandela Bay stadium loses its raison d'etre."

The Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth is one of five new stadiums built by the South African government for this World Cup, having been the first new World Cup stadium to be commissioned in 2009 at the Confederations Cup. The Mandela Bay stadium has already hosted six matches during the World Cup, with the knockout match between Uruguay and South Korea setting a record for the lowest number of spectators in the tournament (30,597). The stadium will also host two of the remaining eight matches. Once the World Cup is over, the stadium, named after black South African leader Nelson Mandela and seating more than 42,000 spectators, will face the dilemma of sitting idle if it is not quickly transformed into a major utility facility.

Compared with the Mandela Bay stadium in Port Elizabeth, the Green Point stadium, also a new venue for this year's World Cup, has a slightly better outlook but the same problems.

Green Point is located in the South African tourist resort of Cape Town, where Argentina's last-eight match against Germany will be played in three days. Despite initial protests and several strikes that paralyzed construction, the new 70,000-seat stadium was finally completed earlier this year under pressure from the government, which assured the public that after the World Cup, the stadium would be made available on a rotating basis to the two local teams playing in South Africa's premier league -- Santos and Cape Town. -Santos and Cape Town Ajax. And it will also try to bid for some international soccer invitational tournaments. And in addition to hosting regular soccer matches, the Green Point Stadium will also host a variety of large-scale events, including concerts, to enrich the use of the Green Point Stadium.

But whether the Green Point Stadium can be put into operation after the World Cup according to pre-match planning, local residents in Cape Town are not entirely optimistic, "Although this stadium has perfect supporting facilities, but in South Africa, the government's statement is often different from the results."

In fact, the Mayor of Cape Town, Shirley, has already expressed concerns in advance, arguing that "the Green Point stadium is only being built because Blatter likes it and the beautiful Table Mountain can be used as a backdrop for broadcasts, not because it is good for South Africa." Another hidden problem is that the Greenpoint Stadium, compared with the 90,000-capacity Beijing "Bird's Nest", is smaller but much more expensive: the official cost of the "Bird's Nest" was 3.5 billion yuan, while the Greenpoint Stadium cost more than 4 billion yuan, and for this reason. Greenpoint stadium still need to repay more than 300 million dollars in loans after the World Cup, which is a great burden for the Greenpoint stadium.

In order to realize the commitment to FIFA, this World Cup the South African government a **** in nine cities in the new construction, renovation and expansion of 10 large-scale soccer professional stadium. But and all the current large-scale sports event organizers in the pre-game carefully study the post-game stadium utilization planning, compared to the South African government in this regard is not well thought out. According to the speculation of local media, Jim Molara, the former deputy chairman of the South African Football Association, was killed by a gunman at his home last year, which must be related to his accusation of corruption and bribery during the construction of the stadium.

So the hosting of the World Cup and the renovation and construction of new soccer stadiums is undoubtedly a double-edged sword for the South African government, which aspires to take advantage of the World Cup to make a comprehensive leap forward. Expanding the influence of the obvious benefits, but after the World Cup is over, the people of South Africa still need to slowly digest this piece of extremely inflated look "cake".