South Africa's Academy Award winner Charlize Theron will be the guest presenter assisting Fifa Secretary General Jerome Valcke during the Final Draw for the 2010 Fifa World Cup at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on Friday, 4 December 2009 at 19h00, sa2010.gov.za has reported.
They will be reportedly joined on stage by a star-studded line-up of sports celebrities, including football star David Beckham (England), one of only a few players to score in at least three consecutive Fifa World Cups, Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia), two-time Olympic gold medallist and nine-time athletics world champion, cricketer Makhaya Ntini, John Smit, the captain of rugby world champions South Africa and Bafana Bafana player Matthew Booth.
President Jacob Zuma and Fifa President Joseph S. Blatter will welcome the audience at the beginning of the 90-minute live show.
Guests on the day will include Issa Hayatou, Chairman of the Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup, Nobel Peace Prize winners Frederik W. de Klerk and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as well as former football icons Franz Beckenbauer, Michel Platini, Eusebio and Roger Milla.
The majority of the 32 coaches of the qualified teams are expected to be present at the draw. Former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela, one of the architects of the first African World Cup, will address the audience by video message.
"This is a very important event for football and Africa as the Final Draw comes to Cape Town where an unprecedented six teams from the host continent will be represented. We expect a record global audience which I hope will be glued to their screens for the duration of the show," said Valcke who will marshal the actual draw.
The Final Draw will be beamed live to more than 200 million people in more than 200 territories.