Emperors Palace Resort and Kia Motors South Africa have the “World’s Biggest Football” as announced today by  Mr Robert Molloy of Guinness World Records. The decision was made this morning at Emperors Palace Resort where an official adjudicator Mr Malloy and a quantity surveyor assessed the ball and confirmed that the Emperors Palace and Kia ball is now the record holder. The giant ball resting on the Chariots Fountain at Emperors Palace is over 15m high and weighs 650kg.

Former Bafana Bafana player and three-time South African Footballer of the Year, Marks Maponyane (left) was one of the many special guests that was at Emperors Palace on Monday morning, July 5 to celebrate the announcement by Rob Molloy (right), Director of Television and Adjudicator Guinness World Records that the world’s biggest soccer ball can be seen, in association with Kia Motors, at the Palace of Dreams.  The Emperors Palace and Kia ball which is almost 70 times the size and 1 500 times heavier than the official Jabulani world cup ball can be viewed by the public at the Chariots Fountain next to the D’oreale Grande hotel at the resort until July 18.

 Rob Molloy, Director of Television and Adjudicator for Guinness World Records and Bob Yearham, Emperors Palace COO, are pictured here in front of the world’s biggest soccer ball after Molloy confirmed the ball as the globe’s largest – standing a giant 15m high - at a special function at the Palace of Dreams on Monday morning, July 5.

Here Rob Molloy, Director of Television and Adjudicator Guinness World Records is pictured with Bob Yearham, Emperors Palace COO and Ray Levin, Kia CEO after presenting them (Yearham and Levin) with a Guinness World Records certificate confirming the Emperors and Kia ball as the largest on the plant. With them are the Emperors Palace cheerleaders, Kelly Hols (left) and Simone Kraus (right). (All Photograph by Yolanda van der Stoep)