Brazil in the World Cup 2010

Some people employ a tactic to meet the players of Brazilian team for a reasonable price: stay in the same hotel as the team.

Sometimes, CBF rents a whole hotel; sometimes, when the hotel is too big, only a sector is rented. When the team shares a hotel, some security measures attempt to isolate the players from the other guests, but some socialization is unavoidable (and most players don’t care about that).

Nobody knows yet where Brazil is going to stay in South Africa; the city will be defined by a draw on December 4th; the hotels where the team will stay will be defined by CBF only in 2010.

But, looking at the hotels where the team stayed during the Confederations Cup of 2009 may provide hints about where they will (or won’t) stay in 2010.

Brazil played five matches in the Confederation Cup 2009.

The first match was in Bloemfontein; there, Brazil stayed in the Bloem Spa.

Next, Brazil played too matches in Pretoria; there, Brazil stayed in the large Centurion Lake Hotel (photo below). On leaving the hotel, however, Dunga confirmed the occurrence of robbery; before Brazil, the Egyptian team had also complained about robbery. There are rumors that the robberies occurred following parties organized by the players; in any case, Dunga will probably have restrictions to the hotels (either by allowing robbery, or by allowing parties).

Finally, Brazil traveled to Johannesburg, to play the last two matches. In Johannesburg, Brazil stayed at the Sunnyside Park Hotel.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 1:20 pm and is filed under host cities, travel.