Indian Company Mahindra Satyam was an Official Sponsor of FIFA World Cup Football 2010. The leading global consulting and information technology services provider Mahindra Satyam has become the first Indian company to sign up as a FIFA World Cup Sponsor. This historic agreement awards Mahindra Satyam global rights for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the two FIFA Confederations Cups which fall within the 2007-2014 period. The partnership, sealed by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter and Satyam chairman and founder B. Ramalinga Raju at a signing ceremony on the eve of the Preliminary Draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa in Durban on 24 Nov 2007.