The FIFA president Sepp Blatter has congratulated South Africa and the organising committee on a successful football World Cup.
Years of negative reporting had predicted chaos and major criminal incidents in a country notorious for violence but those fears proved unjustified with more than 3.1 million people attending the 64 games, the third highest figure behind the United States in 1994 and Germany in 2006.
When asked to give marks out of ten for the tournament Blatter offered this assessment.
