World Cup 2014: current status
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July 11th, 2010
After the Final of the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa, more and more people will be interested in the World Cup 2014.
Below, a brief report of the current situation.
Full schedule of the World Cup 2014 wasn’t released yet. It is known, however, that the matches will happen between mid-June and mid-July of 2014.
The official logo was already presented, but neither the mascot nor other symbols were. Several promotional movies inviting visitors are ready to go – the first one being displayed right after the final match in 2010.
It will be winter in Brazil, but temperatures will be much more pleasant than in South Africa. It is likely that matches will be played, in local time, at mid-morning (around 10 am), short afternoon (around 1 pm) and late afternoon (around 5 pm); that will allow audiences in North America and Europe to watch the games at comfortable times (not sooner than 6 am in Western North America, not later than 10 pm in Eastern Europe).
Tickets are not for sale yet. FIFA already said that there will be big changes from the system adopted in South Africa, so as to make tickets cheaper and easier to be bought.
It is likely that there will be jobs and volunteering opportunities for the World Cup, but there is no further information yet.
Since May 2009, the host cities have been known. To meet interests of FIFA, the Brazilian Confederation and the Brazilian politicians, it was defined that there will be matches in twelve cites (there are doubts if those many are indeed the most recommended).
There will be also twelve stadiums; nine of them are publicly owned, and three are private property. None of the stadiums is ready; a few will be built from stratch, most will be fully overhauled.
Work in all stadiums is delayed. FIFA already manifested preoccupation with the delays. Public stadiums have to deal with a lot of bureaucracy; private stadiums have troubles finding money. This blog keeps track of the works in the stadiums.
Despite claims in contrary by the authorities, the infrastructure works are already delayed. According to several reports, Brazilian airports are not ready to cope with the expected flux of passengers in 2014 (600,000 foreign visitors and 3,000,000 of Brazilians). Recently, the Federal Government passed a law to speed up the works in airports.
The bullet train between Rio and Sao Paulo will not be ready for 2014. Oi Telecom was contracted to provide telecom infrastructure. Very little else has been done regarding infrastructure.
The vuvuzelas were prohibited in Brazil (ops, that was just a wishing).
The graph below shows the recent increase in accesses to this site.
