As the players score another goal, a dark reality for some impovished South Africans thrives.

More than 40 thousand children in South Africa are involved in prostitution with 10 thousand in the area of the stadium where the World Cup is being held. According to ESPN, an expected half a million football fans are going to enter the country with a high demand for prostitutes. According to News One for Black America, many of the workers are from all over the world, and have either traveled or have been trafficked to South Africa to tend to nearly 450,000 mostly-male visitors.

The World Cup has always been a magnet for sex tourism, but in a country where one in five people are living with HIV, it has come to the attention of International Health Experts that the sex workers will contribute greatly to the rise of newly contracted HIV infections and that these will be spread to other countries. This has led to world wide media and governments to look to FIFA for leadership.