World Cup Brazil 2014

In 2007, Brazil was officially appointed as host country of the World Cup 2014.

However, as FIFA – understandably – doesn’t want to draw attention away from the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, little has been said about the event in Brazil.

For example, both the Brazil Tourism Board and the Brazilian Football Confederation are forbidden from mentioning the World Cup in their marketing campaigns; Brazil will certainly call for volunteer work during the Cup, but can’t talk about it right now; FIFA is learning from the mistakes in South Africa (for example, the ticket selling system) and will announce changes to the Cup in Brazil, but nothing is being detailed right now.

This situation will change right after the final match of the World Cup 2010, on July 11th 2010.

After the final match, FIFA will put on air a 90 second movie about the World Cup in Brazil; such movie will be seen by billions of viewers from all over the World.

The movie is being shot by Fernando Meirelles, a well known Brazilian film maker who produced, among others, the movie Cidade de Deus (which, according to the users of IMDB, ranks among the 20 best movies of all times) and also several movies which helped Rio become the host of the Olympics in 2016 (one such movie is below).

After July 11th, not only Brazil, but the entire World will know that the World Cup 2014 will be in Brazil.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 12:12 am and is filed under fifa.