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The most popular sport in Culiacan is football.
Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball. It is the most popular sport in the world. The modern game was codified in England following the formation of The Football Association, whose 1863 Laws of the Game created the foundations for the way the sport is played today.
Football is governed internationally by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (International Federation of Association Football), commonly known by the acronym FIFA.
FIFA.
The most prestigious international football competition is the FIFA World Cup, held every four years. The 2010 FIFA World Cup is the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international association football tournament. It is being held in South Africa, beginning on 11 June and scheduled to conclude on 11 July 2010. The tournament is the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations. The final is forecast to be among the most-watched events ever, possibly behind only the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games. This is the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa defeated Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process. Italy are the defending champions, having won the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. The draw for the finals took place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town. Off the field, the 2010 finals have been notable for introducing the sound of the vuvuzela, a long horn blown by fans throughout matches, into international public consciousness.

Opening ceremony.
The opening ceremony took place on 11 June at 14:00 local time at Soccer City in Johannesburg, two hours before the opening match of the tournament.[70] It lasted some 40 minutes, and included some 1500 performers, including Thandiswa Mazwai, Timothy Moloi, Hugh Masekela, Khaled, Femi Kuti, Osibisa, R Kelly, Hip Hop Pantsula, the Soweto Gospel Choir. Dignitaries present included South African president Jacob Zuma, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, Mexican president Felipe Calderon, Monaco's Prince Albert, Desmond Tutu, and Sepp Blatter, but a notable absentee was Nelson Mandela, whose great-grand-daughter was killed in a car crash earlier in the day.