Menotti led Barcelona to the Spanish Cup final where they beat Real Madrid 2-1. Unlike many other top football clubs, FC Barcelona is still organized as a non-profit association rather than as a corporation. Also at this World Cup, the referees had to take some criticism; this was aimed both against individual wrong decisions such as misjudged goals, as well as against the general tendency of individual referees to give too many yellow cards or to place themselves "too much in the center" with "affected gestures and exaggerated behavior". FIFA initially nominated 30 referees and 60 assistant referees. List of 29 referees and 58 assistant referees for the World Cup. Five of the nominated referees were only used as fourth officials; ten assistant referees were not used at all. For the first time, FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke was critical of the referees' performance and admitted that there were decisions "that weren't good decisions". Replica replaced. Trophy and replica remained the property of FIFA The 1993/94 season brought United a league/FA Cup double, with Hughes' late goal to level Oldham Athletic 1-1 saving his club from the semi-finals of the cup and after a win in a replay helped a goal in the 4-0 win over Chelsea in the final.

For example, the promoted player should not have to play against strong teams three times in a row right at the beginning. Just in time for the start of the World Cup, the first section of the new Gautrain railway system was opened in the metropolitan area between Pretoria and Johannesburg. The international airports in Johannesburg and Cape Town were expanded for the World Cup, and a completely new airport was built in Durban to handle the increased number of passengers. "Seven copies of the World Cup" were lost in a burglary at the FIFA offices in Johannesburg. The top scorers of the entire competition were Brazil's Luís Fabiano, Uruguay's Diego Forlán, Burkina Faso's Moumouni Dagano, Fijian's Osea Vakatalesau and the Spaniard David Villa with 12 goals each Diego Forlán was voted Best Player of the World Cup by media representatives from a selection of ten players nominated by FIFA and thus winner of the Golden Ball, followed by Wesley Sneijder (Silver Ball) and David Villa (Bronze Ball) Becher had played his first game in the DFB Cup with Schalke 04 as a youth player on August 22, 1962 in the semi-finals in a 2-3 away defeat against Fortuna Düsseldorf. Dutchman Wesley Sneijder received the most awards, winning four for games against Denmark, Japan, Brazil and Uruguay. The group match between the Netherlands and Denmark took place in front of around 10,000 empty seats, but the official number of 83,465 spectators indicated that there were only around 1,000 missing spectators.

According to reports in the South African media, there was a budget gap of around 270 million euros due to rising construction costs and the lack of local skilled workers. Dubbed "Super Joe" by the media and fans, the player ended his career in Denver after 20 seasons for the Québec/Colorado franchise. 480,000 were reserved for South African fans, another 1.5 million could be acquired viewers from abroad, the rest left to sponsors, members of FIFA and the players. Fans mostly heeded the advice for "appropriate behavior in South Africa" ​​and thereby contributed to their safety, the spokesman for the German embassy remarked, adding: "Tourists prepared for South Africa are not usually to be found where violent crime occurs in South Africa. In the final series defeated the Detroit Red Wings, who were also the best team of the regular season, defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in the best-of-seven series 4-2 and secured the title for the eleventh time in their history Hyypiä in the 2013-14 season alone the post of head coach.

For the first time there was a ticket fund that gave away tickets to residents of the host country who otherwise could not watch a game live. Federal President Wulff announced the day after the match for third place that Joachim Löw would be awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the players the Silver Laurel Leaf. With the World Cup victory, Spain climbed into the 14thJuly 2010 published the FIFA world rankings with a new record of 1,883 points in first place. The ranked also improved: The Netherlands and Germany both fell by two places to rank 2 and 4 respectively. On the other hand, Brazil slipped from the top 10 by 2, Portugal by 5, Italy by 6 and France by 12 places. He was also able to maintain his level in the world rankings; he lost a place and was now listed in 58th place. Uruguay made it into the top 10 for the first time since the world rankings began, and Slovenia made it into the top 20 for the first time. Cameroon lost the most places (21). Without participation, Egypt reached 9th place for the first time after the World Cup, dropping the poor performance of 2006 from the ranking. The opening game was led by the Uzbek Ravshan Ermatov, who also had the most referees with five matches.