Friday, May 21, 2010
Largest
football sculpture
- world record set by Telkom
PRETORIA, South Africa -- South African telecommunications
company Telkom has built a 50-tonne football on top of the
Lukasrand tower in Pretoria, promoting the 2010 World Cup,
which is made of fibreglass and has a diameter of 24 meters
- setting the new world record for the Largest
football sculpture
. 
Photo: The world's
largest football
sculpture
is 24 metres across and eight stories in height and was
built in anticipation of the FIFA 2010 World Cup. ( enlarge
photo
)
The largest
football sculpture in the world
is made out of fibre-glass
shells that are mounted and supported on the inside with steel
frames. Weighing approximately 50 tonnes in total, the ball
measures approximately 24 metres in diameter and eight storeys
in height.
The world's
largest football
sculpture
is larger than any structure of its kind in the country and
the African continent.
"As a national supporter of the 2010 FIFA World
Cup, Telkom is confident that this initiative will engender
greater public support and excitement ahead of this year's
Final Draw on December 4 in Cape Town, and the world's largest
football showpiece to be hosted in South Africa next year,"
said Telkom's Group CEO, Reuben September at the launch.
He added, "Besides highlighting Tshwane
as one of the host cities, the world's
largest football
sculpture
could become one of the most eye-catching off-field spectacles
related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Telkom is proud to give
Gauteng a visible legacy that will forever link the province
to the world's greatest soccer tournament."
“Telkom’s idea is that the largest
football sculpture in the world
will remain up until
the end of 2010. However, the ball should stay longer, but
the banners might be changed to accommodate other Telkom competitions
in the Premier Soccer League, such as the Telkom Knockout
and the Charity Cup,” affirms Graphic Wizard MD Philip Bredenkamp.
"By creating a large visual spectacle at
the pinnacle of the Lukasrand and Hillbrow towers, Telkom
is offering every citizen of, and visitor to Gauteng, an opportunity
to share in the soccer frenzy that's starting to envelope
our country," explained Thami Magazi, Telkom's Group Executive
for Multi-National Customers.
He concluded: "Since all materials utilised
in the construction are recyclable, Telkom will consider options
with regard to how these could be used to optimally benefit
disadvantaged communities when the structures are eventually
removed."
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