FIFA and the delay of the World Cup Brazil: more rumors
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May 4th, 2010
Yesterday, FIFA General Secretary asked in an interview if the works for the World Cup would start only after carnival.
Today, newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, one of the most important in Brazil, published a report today about the FIFA concerns with the delays in Brazil.
Translation:
“FIFA is starting to plan for changes in the list of cities and stadiums which should host matches of the World Cup 2014. Decisions shall be made after the visit of the Local Organising Committee, between May 5th and 20th, to the 12 host cities. Among the decisions, one is probably to rule out Morumbi as one of the stadiums; another, very likely as well, is to replace the host cities which are not complying with the deadlines.
Cities which were not chosen as hosts, such as Goiânia and Belém, may be recalled now. In Johannesburg, FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke abandoned diplomacy, criticized the delay in the works of the stadium, and warned: Brazil must work hard to earn the rights to host the World Cup 2014 and the Olympic Games 2016.
These visits to check out the stadiums and to assess the schedules of the works in each of the cities (first visit to Sao Paulo and last one to Salvador), will provide FIFA with information to, after September, make the necessary changes to avoid a fiasco in 2014.
FIFA want all stadia ready by December 2012, one year and a half before the World Cup and six months before the Confederations Cup, and do not consider to cut down the number of host cities.
The problem is that less than half of the cities has any works started. FIFA is regreting to have allowed Brazil to be the only candidate to host the Cup. These strong declarations by FIFA staff are complaints which were already being heard in the backstages; behind closed doors, FIFA had alread lost patience with Brazil.
At FIFA, still nobody talks about the possibility of replacing Brazil as host country of 2014. Valcke assured that such possibility doesn’t exist right now, even with FIFA admitting that there countries which could get ready for the event in a very short notice.
FIFA changed their proceedings to accept the Brazilian requests, but Brazil assured that everything would be made within time, which is not happening.”
June 8th, 2010 at 11:42 am
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