Comunicas.- The 2010 World Cup in South Africa got under way with a spectacular and vibrant opening ceremony at the 94,000-capacity Soccer City in Johannesburg.

The ceremony was followed by the first game of the tournament between the hosts and Mexico, which ended 1-1.

Africa is staging the World Cup for the first time, with 32 nations competing in 64 games until the final on 11 July.

BBC

Comunicas.- After the four goals scored on Tuesday in a match against the Arsenal team in the Champion League quarter finals, the each-time-more outstanding performance by Argentinian Lionel Messi on Wednesday seems not to know limits.

The help given among the rival defenders is not enough to stop Lio, Cancah Llena sports supplement of La Nacion daily highlighted in an editorial entitled "Impressive: Messi's Limit is Infinite."

Messis' performance on Wednesday was another challenge to keeping strenuously looking up in the dictionary for words to metaphorically describe his incomparable playing art, said the daily, to which the crack "is better each time."

The newspaper also said that adjectives are not enough to journalists to describe fairly and accurately the frequent wonderful performances by the Argentinian soccer player.

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