World Cup 2010: U.S. soccer team to have the biggest number of fans in South Africa

World Cup 2010: At World Cup in South Africa, it seems that the United States will have the biggest number of fans, surprisingly enough.

American fans have bought 130,000 of the 2,8 million tickets for the World Cup in South Africa, according to FIFA and the South African organizing committee. This is the biggest amount of tickets bought by another country than South Africa for World Cup 2010.

It would seem that soccer, or football, as it is called in Europe, is starting to be an important sport for Americans.

The United States fans’ number at the World Cup in South Africa will surpass, for the first time in history, more traditional groups of fans’, like the ones supporting Brazil, Germany or England.

The interesting thing is that there are a lot of fans that are coming to South Africa to see the event itself, not necessarily to support their country’s team. Also, many of them could be coming to the World Cup to support their country of origin’s team – Mexico, Honduras, as well as many other countries, especially from Latin America.

Let’s see if their team manages to get a good result against Wayne Rooney’s England.