"I have just been all over the world and whether it was 10 Downing Street or the White House or the Kremlin… the first line was, 'This was the best World Cup ever.'"

-- Danny Jordaan, who headed the 2010 World Cup South African organizing committee, measuring the impact the tournament had on raising awareness of South Africa by the recent reception he had at the White House when he and others on the FIFA World Cup 2018/22 inspection tour were greeted by an American politician wearing a makarapa, the carved and painted hat worn by South African fans. (AP)