Branding fan parks is a big part of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer.   fan parks are important because The World Cup is approximately 15 times bigger than the 1995 Rugby World Cup. We are expecting 30,000 media people alone   Business travel will be disrupted purely due to the movement of thousands of supporters.   This is an ideal place for deploying branded shadenet which can handle the extreme South African weather conditions better than any other substrate.

News reports that there could 220 000 long haul visitors, 180 000 visitors from Africa and about 150 000 local supporters. Can you believe it that for each game 100 000 travellers will need to fly, drive, catch a bus or a train to visit the game which makes branding fan parks so important fro 2010 sponsors.   Branding of fan parks can be done with printed shadenet economically and it is easy to rig.  Shadenet can be made to a specific height, colour and density depending on the opaqueness needed by the organisers.

We hear that 2 000 extra buses have been imported to transport supporters. Supporters are expected to watch their team play every 3 or 4 days and supporters whose teams are not paying on the day will go to fan parks and take tours of the city they are in.
 
As regards branding fan parks, they are located in the centre of the action so that spectators and the public can view all the games or the ones of their choice.  Now here's something for free - the entrance to fan parks is free so they will guarantee sponsors excellent exposure with spectators frequenting them in large numbers.  In Germany over 500 000 spectators pitched up at a fan park to watch one game!  Imagine 500 000 spectators experiencing your brand on perimeter fencing and scaffolding towers.


Fan Park Branding in the Western Cape will be seen at fan parks at The Grand Parade, Somerset West Road,  Stellenbosch, Bellville Velodrome, Swartklip, Atlantis, Khayelitsha, Nomzamo Yethu (Hout Bay).  Fan Parks in Johannesburg available for fan park branding will apparently be at  Mary Fitzgerald Square in the Newton precinct, Soweto, Innes-Free Park in Sandton,  Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown.  Durban Fan Park branding will be  needed at The Durban Beach Front