World Cup 2010 Travel Deals

Here at BootsnAll Travel Network headquarters, I’m pretty sure I’m the only one in the office who is not a big soccer fan (or should I say “football” fan?). This means I am often left staring blankly when office lunch discussions erupt about the big game yesterday, and my eyes glaze over when fantasy teams are discussed and trades involving big time players who I have never heard of happen.

Despite time spent traveling in Europe and Latin America, playing soccer for years growing up, working in an office surrounded by soccer fans and living in a city where local soccer games outsell baseball games 2 to 1, I just haven’t really boarded the soccer train yet. You’d think given all those factors I may have absorbed some of the soccer frenzy through osmosis, but I’ll still take American football and basketball over soccer any day. Sorry.

World Cup Travel

Despite my resistance to soccer fandom, this still doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be totally thrilled to get the opportunity to travel to South Africa for the World Cup in 2010 to watch and root the USA and France on to victory. You too can support the US Team at Soccer.com (Though I’ll admit I would be more excited about the post-World Cup BootsnAll trip through Africa than any of the games at the Cup).

The truth also remains that while I may never go out of my way to watch a televised soccer match, soccer and travel do seem to go hand in hand. Much more of an international sport than American football or basketball, from the fields in Panama to the streets in Italy, soccer is the sport played by kids, watched by locals and fervently supported by mass numbers of fans around the world.

And, aside from the Olympics, no other high-profile sporting event besides the World Cup brings together competing teams from so many different corners of the globe—making for a great international scene at the World Cup and meaning I’ve already been looking for cheap airfare to Johannesburg and looking into my options for deals on South African hotels.

BootsnAll Exclusive World Cup 2010 Southern Africa Adventure

BootsnAll Travel Network certainly has seen this close tie between soccer and travel. Their popular soccer site, The Offside, has constantly updated information from around the soccer world, as well as many popular team blogs within the site.

BootsnAll also hosts the World Cup Blog, which has tons of up-to-date information on teams from around the world and information about the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2010 taking place in South Africa. BootsnAll’s resident Africa expert, soccer fan, Mount Kilimanjaro guide, and all-around bad ass adventurer Peter Baxter will also be leading a Southern Africa World Cup 2010 Celebration Tour following the Cup.

The BootsnAll World Adventures tour will take off after the World Cup final and will head east to Mozambique and then west to Victoria Falls. The second half of the trip will go from Victoria Falls through Botswana back to South Africa.

You can do the whole 21-days, or 14-days from Johannesburg to Victoria Falls, catching a flight back to Johannesburg, or join the group from Victoria Falls on the 7-day last leg through Botswana back to Johannesburg.

>>Get more information about travel to the 2010 World Cup and BootsnAll World Adventure tours in Africa

Other World Cup 2010 News/Travel Deals:

• 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Official Site
• Emirates Launch World Cup Travel Packages
• FIFA chief attempts to alleviate security concerns surrounding 2010 South Africa World Cup