Policemen watch a fly over during the opening ceremoney for the World Cup group A soccer match between South Africa and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday, June 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

South Africa's Siphiwe Tshabalala, second from left, celebrates with South Africa's Katlego Mphela, left, South Africa's Kagisho Dikgacoi, third from left, and fellow team members, after scoring the opening goal during the World Cup group A soccer match between South Africa and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday, June 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

A Dutch soccer fan waits for the World Cup group E soccer match between the Netherlands and Denmark at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, June 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Denmark soccer fans cheer prior to the World Cup group E soccer match between the Netherlands and Denmark at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, June 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Algeria's Karim Matmour, right, is tackled by Slovenia's Robert Koren, on the ground left, during the World Cup group C soccer match between Algeria and Slovenia at Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, South Africa, Sunday, June 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

South Korea's Park Ji-sung, right, runs to score his side's second goal during the World Cup group B soccer match between South Korea and Greece at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on Saturday, June 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-Man)

An Argentine fan wearing a Maradona mask holds a stuffed glove reading in Spanish "The hand of God" prior to the World Cup group B soccer match between Argentina and Nigeria at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, June 12, 2010. (AP/Ricardo Mazalan)

Italian team poses for a team photo before the World Cup group F soccer match between Italy and Paraguay in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, June 14, 2010. Back row from left; Italy's Gianluca Zambrotta, Italy's Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italy's Alberto Gilardino, Italy's Domenico Criscito, Italy's Giorgio Chiellini, Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. Front row from left, Italy's Claudio Marchisio, Italy's Riccardo Montolivo, Italy's Fabio Cannavaro, Italy's Daniele De Rossi, Italy's Simone Pepe. (AP/Roberto Candia)

Paraguay's soccer team poses for a team photo prior to the World Cup group F soccer match between Italy and Paraguay in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, June 14, 2010. Back row from left; Paraguay goalkeeper Justo Villar, Paraguay's Antolin Alcaraz, Paraguay's Victor Caceres, Paraguay's Enrique Vera, Paraguay's Paulo Da Silva, Front row from left; Paraguay's Carlos Bonet, Paraguay's Cristian Riveros, Paraguay's Claudio Morel, Paraguay's Lucas Barrios, Paraguay's Aureliano Torres, Paraguay's Nelson Haedo Valdez. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Paraguayan fans celebrate their team's first goal against Italy during a South Africa 2010 WCup soccer game, in downtown Asuncion, Monday June 14, 2010. (AP/Jorge Saenz)

An Italian soccer fan reacts as she watches on a giant screen the group F World Cup soccer match between Italy and Paraguay, in Rome, Monday, June 14, 2010. (AP/Riccardo De Luca)

Ahhhh: Paraguayan fans react after Italy scored against their team during a South Africa 2010 WCup soccer match in downtown Asuncion, Monday, June 14, 2010. The game ended tied 1-1.(AP/Jorge Saenz)

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RCTI/Global 11/06/10 Jumat 21:00 Grup A Soccer City Afsel vs Meksiko
RCTI 12/06/10 Sabtu 01:30 Grup A Green Point Uruguay vs Prancis

RCTI 12/06/10 Sabtu 18:30 Grup B Mandela Bay Korsel vs Yunani
RCTI 12/06/10 Sabtu 21:00 Grup B Ellis Park Argengina vs Nigeria

RCTI 13/06/10 Minggu 01:30 Grup C Bafokeng Inggris vs Amerika
Global 13/06/10 Minggu 18:30 Grup C Mokaba Aljazair vs Slovenia

RCTI 13/06/10 Minggu 21:00 Grup D Versfeld Serbia vs Ghana
RCTI 14/06/10 Senin 01:30 Grup D Moses Jerman vs Australia

Global 14/06/10 Senin 18:30 Grup E Soccer City Belanda vs Denmark
RCTI 14/06/10 Senin 21:00 Grup E Free State Jepang vs Kamerun

RCTI 15/06/10 Selasa 01:30 Grup F Green Point Italia vs Paraguay
Global 15/06/10 Selasa 18:30 Grup F Bafokeng Selandia Baru vs Slovakia

RCTI 15/06/10 Selasa 21:00 Grup G Mandela Bay Pantai Gading vs Portugal
RCTI 16/06/10 Rabu 01:30 Grup G Ellis Park Brasil vs Korut

Global 16/06/10 Rabu 18:30 Grup H Mbombela Honduras vs Chile
RCTI 16/06/10 Rabu 21:00 Grup H Moses Spanyol vs Swiss

RCTI 17/06/10 Kamis 01:30 Grup A Versfeld Afsel vs Uruguay
Global 17/06/10 Kamis 18:30 Grup B Soccer City Argentina vs Korsel
RCTI 17/06/10 Kamis 21:00 Grup B Free State Yunani vs Nigeria

RCTI 18/06/10 Jumat 01:30 Grup A Mokaba Prancis vs Meksiko
Global 18/06/10 Jumat 18:30 Grup D Mandela Bay Jerman vs Serbia
RCTI 18/06/10 Jumat 21:00 Grup C Ellis Park Slovenia vs Amerika

RCTI 19/06/10 Sabtu 01:30 Grup C Green Point Inggris vs Aljazair
Global 19/06/10 Sabtu 18:30 Grup E Moses Belanda vs Jepang
RCTI 19/06/10 Sabtu 21:00 Grup D Bafokeng Ghana vs Australia

RCTI 20/06/10 Minggu 01:30 Grup E Versfeld Kamerun vs Denmark
Global 20/06/10 Minggu 18:30 Grup F Free State Slovakia vs Paraguay
RCTI 20/06/10 Minggu 21:00 Grup F Mbombela Italia vs Selandia Baru

RCTI 21/06/10 Senin 01:30 Grup G Soccer City Brasil vs Pantai Gading
Global 21/06/10 Senin 18:30 Grup G Green Point Portugal vs Korut
RCTI 21/06/10 Senin 21:00 Grup H Mandela Bay Chile vs Swiss

RCTI 22/06/10 Selasa 01:30 Grup H Ellis Park Spanyol vs Honduras
Global 22/06/10 Selasa 21:00 Grup A Bafokeng Meksiko vs Uruguay
RCTI 22/06/10 Selasa 21:00 Grup A Free State Prancis vs Afsel

Global 23/06/10 Rabu 01:30 Grup B Moses Nigeria vs Korsel
RCTI 23/06/10 Rabu 01:30 Grup B Mokaba Yunani vs Argentina
RCTI 23/06/10 Rabu 21:00 Grup C Mandela Bay Slovenia vs Inggris
Global 23/06/10 Rabu 21:00 Grup C Versfeld Amerika vs Aljazair

RCTI 24/06/10 Kamis 01:30 Grup D Soccer City Ghana vs Jerman
Global 24/06/10 Kamis 01:30 Grup D Mbombela Australia vs Serbia
RCTI 24/06/10 Kamis 21:00 Grup F Ellis Park Slovakia vs Italia
Global 24/06/10 Kamis 21:00 Grup F Mokaba Paraguay vs Selandia Baru

Global 25/06/10 Jumat 01:30 Grup E Bafokeng Denmark vs Jepang
RCTI 25/06/10 Jumat 01:30 Grup E Green Point Kamerun vs Belanda
Global 25/06/10 Jumat 21:00 Grup G Mbombela Korut vs Pantai Gading
RCTI 25/06/10 Jumat 21:00 Grup G Moses Portugal vs Brasil

Global 26/06/10 Sabtu 01:30 Grup H Free State Swiss vs Honduras
RCTI 26/06/10 Sabtu 01:30 Grup H Versfeld Chile vs Spain

26/06/10 Sabtu 21:00 16 besar Mandela Bay 1A vs 2B
27/06/10 Minggu 01:30 16 besar Bafokeng 1C vs 2D
27/06/10 Minggu 21:00 16 besar Free State 1D vs 2C
28/06/10 Senin 01:30 16 besar Soccer City 1B vs 2A
28/06/10 Senin 21:00 16 besar Moses 1E vs 2F
29/06/10 Selasa 01:30 16 besar Ellis Park 1G vs 2H
29/06/10 Selasa 21:00 16 besar Versfeld 1F vs 2E
30/06/10 Rabu 01:30 16 besar Green Point 1H vs 2G

02/07/10 Jumat 21:00 1/4 final Mandela Bay winner 53 vs winner 54
03/07/10 Sabtu 01:30 1/4 final Soccer City winner 49 vs winner 50
03/07/10 Sabtu 21:00 1/4 final Green Point winner 52 vs winner 51
04/07/10 Minggu 01:30 1/4 final Ellis Park winner 55 vs winner 56

07/07/10 Rabu 01:30 Semifinal Green Point winner 58 vs winner 57
08/07/10 Kamis 01:30 Semifinal Moses winner 59 vs winner 60

11/07/10 Minggu 01:30 Juara 3 Mandela Bay loser 61 vs loser 62
12/07/10 Senin 01:30 Final Soccer City winner 61 vs winner 62

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End is near for Omaha's famous ballpark

Jonathan Stempel

Reuters/OMAHA, Nebraska

It sits on a hill, due south of Bob Gibson Boulevard, a reservoir of memories for countless baseball players who reached the pinnacle of their sport, or were on their way there. Next year, it will be gone.

Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium opened in 1948, and two years later began hosting the College World Series which has been played there ever since.

The Omaha Royals, the top farm team for the Kansas City Royals major league team, has played there since 1969.

Rosenblatt's roughly 23,000 blue, yellow and red seats overlook what was a field of dreams for future professionals such as George Brett and Dave Winfield, as well as thousands of amateur ballplayers for whom the College World Series marked the apex of their careers.

The series outgrew it; the Omaha Royals cannot fill it, and so the 63rd year for Rosenblatt, named after a former Omaha mayor, is its last.

"It's bittersweet," said George Horton, head baseball coach for the University of Oregon Ducks. Horton won the College World Series while coaching Cal State-Fullerton in 2004 and played there for that team in 1975.

"I grew up with the development of Rosenblatt, and a big part of me is saddened by the departure of that great iconic stadium on the hill," he said.

Omaha is building a $128-million, 24,000-seat North Downtown stadium, TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, to house the College World Series for the next 25 years, plus the baseball team from nearby Creighton University and a United Football League team.

Expandable to 35,000 seats, it is a big stadium, especially given that the Royals will not play there. Too big, the Royals say; not enough parking, some Omaha residents say.

The team is instead moving 16 kilometers southwest to suburban Sarpy County to occupy a $26-million ballpark in Papillion, built on what were once corn and soybean fields.

Both parks are expected to be ready for next season.

Lou Felici, a 78-year-old retired laboratory technician, has had a prime seat for Royals games: front row, next to the visiting team dugout on the first base side. He has had Royals season tickets for all the team's 42 years but there is not likely to be a 43rd.

"The wife died nine years ago," he said. "The wife and I spent the best years of our lives right here, at Rosenblatt Stadium. We've had seats 1 and 2 here for all these years. She loved baseball, and I've probably been looking for an excuse to slow down, and this probably is it."

Rosenblatt has been modified several times, in part because the College World Series grew in popularity after ESPN began televising it. Suites, a club, a new press box and thousands of seats were added. The outfield fence was moved in.

The stadium organ is aged but still playable, draped when not in use by a green, hole-filled cloth. An umpire threw out the organist from a 1988 game for mocking a close call by playing the theme tune to the Mickey Mouse Club.

The minor league Royals, partially owned by hometown investor Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, is the main tenant and for them, Rosenblatt is less than ideal.

Unlike at many newer ballparks, the seats are not particularly close to the field. The clubhouses are tight.

In June, which is a big month for minor league teams, the Royals have to vacate the park to make way for the College World Series. During this year's series games from June 19 to 30, the Royals will be on a 17-game road trip.

"The venerable old ballpark on the hill: it's part of Omaha, or maybe it is Omaha," said Martie Cordaro, the Royals general manager.

For his team, though, "it's about providing a minor league baseball experience for our fans. You can't do that in a stadium that's not built for minor league baseball."

There is wide agreement that the stadium's passing means more to college players and coaches than professionals.

"For most of our kids, Omaha is a highlight of their lives," said Mike Batesole, head coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs, who won the College World Series in 2008. "We talk to them about God, family, friends, college and then baseball. But for those couple of weeks, baseball creeps up the ladder."

Jim Graver, 69, who has had Royals season tickets for 29 years and College World Series tickets for 26, said: "Some of the players that played here in the College World Series bring their sons back and they say: 'Now this is where I hit one out of the park.' Now they won't be able to."

Royals manager Mike Jirschele understands the difference.

"I've been here for 11 years; it's almost like home," the Wisconsin native said. "You look at how big it is and how nice it looks, it's a shame that it's going down."

Players probably felt differently, he said. "I think a lot of them, to tell you the truth, could probably not care less that this stadium won't be here next year," he said. "They're just here to get better and perhaps get to the big leagues."

The Royals rope off or cover all but 8,859 of Rosenblatt's seats for its games. Their new Sarpy County ballpark will have 6,500 permanent seats and hold 8,500 in all.

Fans are already preparing for the College World Series. For coaches, this is their last shot to win at Rosenblatt.

Paul Mainieri, who coached the LSU Tigers to a College World Series win last year, said he motivates players with big letters that spell "OMAHA" on a wall in a team meeting room.

"You walk in Rosenblatt Stadium, you feel a tingle up your spine," he said. "Your eyes get as big as softballs, and you realize, 'This is what it's all about.'"

Photo caption: The Iowa Cubs and Omaha Royals minor league baseball teams play at Rosenblatt baseball stadium, site of the College World Series, in Omaha April 29, 2010. It sits on a hill, due south of Bob Gibson Boulevard, a reservoir of memories for countless baseball players who reached the pinnacle of their sport, or were on their way there. Next year, it will be gone.[Reuters/Rick Wilking]

Journalist's dream to leave World Cup legacy

Barry Moody

Reuters/ORANGE FARM, South Africa

In a dusty township south of Johannesburg, hundreds of excited children play football in a project designed to leave a legacy long after the World Cup circus has moved on from South Africa.

Unlike thousands of their peers kicking footballs on scrappy grounds around the country, the children are dressed in pristine kit and many are wearing boots for the first time.

The tournament is organized by Dreamfields, a project founded by well-known broadcast journalist John Perlman, which he hopes will live on as a tangible benefit from the World Cup, immune from questions over vast infrastructure spending in a nation where much of the population remains mired in poverty.

Perlman, 50, dreamed up his project just before the last World Cup in Germany in 2006 as he contemplated the tournament coming to his often troubled nation.

"I had this feeling that it is quite hard to stay in positive space because there are so many things that go on that are complicated. For example the money spent on stadiums is not an unambiguously good thing," Perlman told Reuters.

"The fundamental premise I started from in many ways was that this is a big-hearted country. It is a troubled country with all sorts of divisions and complexes and even paranoias but fundamentally it is a country with a good heart."

Perlman, using his name and his contacts and exploiting what he calls the "warm following wind" of the World Cup, has shown a genius for persuading big South African corporations -- and even small businesses and families -- to cough up money for Dreamfields, and to help run the tournaments.

Dreamfields, with a small staff of six, expects to have raised 20 million rand ($2.7 million) by the end of the soccer spectacular in July. It has already supplied 1,200 schools, representing 16,000 children, mostly in rural areas, with soccer kit, built 12 pitches and organized 96 tournaments.

The recent Orange Farm event was sponsored by the big FirstRand banking group. More than 100 of its staff clearly relished their participation, managing the 25 girls' and boys' teams and providing food, drink, music and trophies.

Soccer's world governing body FIFA has its own Football For Hope project but it is designed to teach life lessons in many countries.

Perlman's project, originally based on his previous enterprise of providing books for school libraries, is more simple and confined to organizing soccer in this country.

However, Dreamfields is linked to other projects, combating crime and drugs or building bridges to dissipate land tensions between rural villages and the national game parks.

Its unique nature is built around the supply of 6,000-rand ($800) "dreambags" which provide enough kit and balls for 15 children in a school.

"We are in a crowded room but I do think we stand out and I do think we do different things," said Perlman, who still presents a local radio discussion program four nights a week. "We start from the premise that playing sport...is a right."

"We are having fun and learning how to work as a team," said goalkeeper Katleho Selepe, 12, in a break between matches at the Orange Farm tournament, one of Dreamfields' biggest.

"It helps to keep us away from the streets and doing bad things," he said, echoing a frequent theme that football shields youngsters from getting involved in violent crime in the townships.

Mduduzi Ephraim, school coach for one of the girls' teams, said Dreamfields "makes the children fulfil their dreams and be active in sports. It keeps them out of the streets a lot."

Selepe's team mate, striker Tshidiso Matshwisa, 11, said he was wearing boots for the first time. "They fit really well. I am very excited because I want to be a soccer player when I grow up and I will be much better because of these opportunities."

The boys' "manager", bank business analyst Judith Meyer, 21, shared the glow. "It's very different here because you are part of the team and you get to know these boys and girls. You feel like you are doing more than just volunteering for charity work. You are participating in the tournament."

Her colleague, risk manager Koketso Dioka, said as he acted as a linesman for a boys' game: "When I was growing up, we played without soccer boots and facilities. Our shoes were too heavy so we had to play barefoot.

"Imagine where everyone would be if they were not here. Most would be doing nothing or bad things," he said.

Perlman is politely critical of some aspects of the World Cup, saying there could have been greater opportunities for participation by South African small businesses. "I think the World Cup could have unlocked more of that...There is more fat in this beast that could have been spread."

Measuring the success of the tournament would go beyond stadiums, transport and ticketing.

"The much more difficult thing is to what extent do people feel that they are part of it and involved in the World Cup and there I would venture Dreamfields has made a big contribution."

He admits the next big challenge will be sustaining the project after the momentum of the World Cup has passed.

"If you just play when the circus comes to town and by analogy you just do things in your country because FIFA has come to town, you don't get anything out of it. Things have to continue."

Photo Captions:
1.School boys compete for a ball during a Dreamfields project in Orange Farm township, south of Johannesburg, May 8, 2010. [Reuter/Siphiwe Sibeko]

2. Boys from one of the 16 teams taking part in Johannesburg inner city soccer tournament, part of the Dreamfields Project, watch a match at Jeppe High Preparatory School in Johannesburg April 17, 2010. [Reuters/Peter Andrews]

3. School girls compete for a ball during a Dreamfields project in Orange Farm township, south of Johannesburg, May 8, 2010. [Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko]

4. Boys watch as school children play a soccer match during a Dreamfields project in Orange Farm township, south of Johannesburg, May 8, 2010. [Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko]