Zakami
Sign in to saveZakumi the Leopard was the official mascot of the 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa. He is an anthropomorphized leopard with green hair who was announced on September 22, 2008.
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- Zakumi the Leopard, the official mascot for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
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- Sports, Comedy
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- TV series
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- Alexander Wong
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- Patrick Keller
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- Andries Odendaal
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- 2010
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- 20
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Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male organism
- Country of origin
- South Africa
- Followed by
- Fuleco
- Follows
- Goleo VI
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- Zakumi, the 2010 FIFA World Cup Mascot.jpg
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- advertises
- 2010 FIFA World Cup
- facet of
- 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup
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- Zakumi
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Television Show
- Controversies
- See also
- References
- External links
Zakumi the Leopard was the official mascot of the 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa. He is an anthropomorphized leopard with green hair who was announced on September 22, 2008.
His name comes from "ZA", the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for South Africa, and Kumi, a word that means "ten" in several African languages, signifying "South Africa 2010".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zakami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.