The first World Cup to boast 48 teams will explode into action on 11 June at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City with a match between Mexico and South Africa. Over the following 39 days, 104 games will take place in 15 other cities in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
The football fest is expected to attract more than one million visitors to the countries while billions across the globe watch on an array of screens ranging from mobile phone and laptop to TV and giant inflatable.
