Charlize Theron leading lady in World Cup draw
December 1, 2009 by admin
Filed under Events, General, Int'l Soccer, Soccer
South African actress Charlize Theron has landed a leading role in Friday’s draw for next year’s soccer World Cup finals in her home country, the international soccer body FIFA announced .
Theron, a Hollywood icon, will be joint host of the 90-minute show to be televised live to an estimated global audience of more than two hundred million people in 200 countries.
She is well-known as a celeb who gives back and has been involved in efforts to give kids living in underserved communities more opportunities to play competitive soccer.
Theron will join FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke to host the procedure of placing the 32 national finalists into eight groups of four teams for the 2010 tournament which runs from June 11 to July 11.
A host of sporting celebrities will also take part in the draw including Ethiopia’s Olympic champion runner Haile Gebrselassie, South African soccer player Matthew Booth and cricketer Makhaya Ntini and the host country’s rugby World Cup captain John Smit. Also attending will be David Beckham, who scored in three consecutive World Cups and still hopes to make it on the England squad by June.
South African president Jacob Zuma will be in the audience along with Nobel Peace prize winners Frederik de Klerk and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Theron is definitely one of those actresses we love to watch and support in all her endeavors.
