[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] One of the great unknowns about the 2010 World Cup is just how many visitors will travel to South Africa. Donald Gips, the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, says it hard to guess how many Americans will attend the World Cup, but the best guess is “somewhere between 25,000 and 40,000.”

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