THE TROPHY TOUR

The World Cup trophy is currently on a 'World Tour' in preparation for this summer's Finals in South Africa.

Recently in London, it's now in St Petersburg for a brief stop and is due to move on to Moscow tomorrow. On Monday it will travel on to Donetsk in southern Ukraine and then on March 25 it will be in Bratislava.

The stops are part of a 225-day tour of the trophy which started last September and which will include stops in all 54 countries on the African continent.

In total the 'World Cup' will have travelled 134,000 kilometres and visited 86 countries, ending up in South Africa in May, where it will lie in waiting for the 19th World Cup tournament, which kicks off at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg on June 11.