{"id":412,"date":"2010-01-21T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=412"},"modified":"2020-10-26T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:36:14","slug":"previewing-the-ball-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/01\/21\/previewing-the-ball-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Previewing The Ball 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_413\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/01\/the_ball_2010_in_womb_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-413 size-full\" title=\"The Ball 2010 in its &quot;womb&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/01\/the_ball_2010_in_womb_640.jpg\" alt=\"The Ball 2010 in its &quot;womb&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/01\/the_ball_2010_in_womb_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/01\/the_ball_2010_in_womb_640-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/01\/the_ball_2010_in_womb_640-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/01\/the_ball_2010_in_womb_640-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/01\/the_ball_2010_in_womb_640-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/01\/the_ball_2010_in_womb_640-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ball 2010 in its &#8220;womb&#8221;<\/small><\/div>\n<p>Will Prochaska from <a href=\"http:\/\/aliveandkicking.org.uk\/\">Alive &amp; Kicking<\/a> just sent us a photo of The Ball 2010, which has just arrived from Kenya for its <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/the-ball-2010-kickoff\/\">kick-off game in Battersea Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ball 2010 is made by Alive &amp; Kicking in Kenya\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tE3JAoZbrzw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Alive &amp; Kicking filmed The Ball 2010 being made at their factory in Nairobi. This is the ball that is making the journey from England to South Africa for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/videos\/the-ball-2010-is-made-by-alive-kicking-in-kenya\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>After the kick-off, The Ball 2010 will leave Battersea Park and travel through Europe and 17 African countries (Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa) to the World Cup Opening Ceremony.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alignleft padded_br\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJ6X-WLPFYDhUfKAcZo1ZoPSZZmAI4UYDKVK7U_c6ThRl0uT7mU2ic50fb\" alt=\"Dan Magness\" \/><\/div>\n<p>But before it leaves England, on Tuesday January 26th, four times Guinness World Record Holder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmagness.com\/\">Dan Magness<\/a> will attempt to break a world record, by juggling The Ball thirty miles across London, visiting all Premier League football stadiums in London in the process. The current world record stands at 26.1 miles. To successfully beat it, Dan Magness must keep the ball under control at all times using all parts of his body (except his hands) and keeping the ball off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>At each football stadium &#8212; Craven Cottage, Stamford Bridge, Upton Park, Emirates and White Hart Lane &#8212; Dan will change shirts and reveal the football shirt of that particular Premier League team. Dan&#8217;s journey will begin at Craven Cottage, the home of Fulham FC and finish just before kick-off on the pitch at Tottenham Hotspur FC. Tottenham will be playing against Fulham in the Barclays Premier League at 7:45pm.<\/p>\n<p><em>And so two epic journeys begin with the same ball. <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/the-ball-2010-kickoff\/\">Come along to the park<\/a> and celebrate the kick-off with us&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Prochaska from Alive &amp; Kicking just sent us a photo of The Ball 2010, which has just arrived from Kenya for its kick-off game in Battersea Park. After the kick-off, The Ball 2010 will leave Battersea Park and travel through Europe and 17 African countries (Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,232],"tags":[23,20,22,24],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-battersea-park","tag-dan-magness","tag-freestyle-football","tag-kickoff"],"geo":{"latitude":51.47802730000000082100086729042232036590576171875,"longitude":-0.160943300000000011351630746503360569477081298828125,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/01\/the_ball_2010_in_womb_640.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}