Hamburg - The head of South Africa's World Cup organizing committee has dismissed speculation that the event could be moved elsewhere by football's world governing body FIFA. World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC) chief executive Danny Jordaan told Germany's Die Welt newspaper to appear Monday it was "nonsense" to talk of an alternative host.
FIFA president Joseph Blatter, who will be visiting South Africa to check on the nation's facilities during a four-day tour from Sunday, has spoken of a "plan B" should the hosts fail to convince football's world body it was capable of holding the tournament.
But Jordaan said no country, "not even Germany", would be capable of organizing a World Cup at such short notice. This had less to do with infrastructure issues than with the legal arrangements involved in holding the tournament.
Jordaan said South Africa's preparations were on schedule, and the organizers will next week be able to demonstrate to Blatter the progress being made. All 10 World Cup stadiums will be ready be the October 31, 2009 deadline set, he said.
