Amr Shaheen BBC Sport, Cairo

Egypt's logo for the World Cup bid

Egypt has picked the delegation that will travel to Fifa headquarters to hand over their formal bid for hosting the 2010 World Cup finals.

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak selected Ahmed Fathy Soroor, the chairman of the country's parliament, to lead the five-man delegation going to the Swiss city of Zurich.

The other members of the delegation include sports and youth minister Ali Eddin Hellal and Dahshoury Harb, president of the Egyptian Football Association.

The internationally-acclaimed actor Omar Sharif has also been included in the Egyptian delegation, while Hicham Azmy is the general coordinator of the country's bid.

"The file is 3,700 pages long and weighs 34 kilograms," Azmy, who will hand the file to Fifa, told BBC Sport website.

"Fifa officials will find answers to all their questions in this file. I am sure it will be more than satisfactory for them."

Egypt and the five other countries bidding for the 2010 World Cup - Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Nigeria and South Africa - are expected to submit their bids to Fifa between 1100 and 1500 gmt on 30 September.