Football | Updated Nov 24, 2009 at 02:09pm IST

SA firm issues gold coins to celebrate WC

New Delhi: The South African Mint Company has manually produced gold and silver coins to celebrate the 2010 World Cup in the nation.

The coins series features three stadiums and other South African national symbols and will be one of the rarest collections with just 25,000 coins.

In more good news for football fans FIFA has announced free fan parks to watch first World Cup being held in the African continent.

There will be 10 sites for the mega event in the host country.

More than 1 million people are expected to visit the rainbow nation and can enjoy the game and the experience even if they don't get a ticket to the stadium.

The will be the other seven cities around the world with such fan parks.

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