[Soccer] Brazil to host 2014 World Cup

DrLudicrous · Oct 31, 2007

Puedlfor said:

I believe it was FIFA that wanted to limit them to 12 stadiums, but the Brazilian FA wants to play it in 18 stadiums so that they can spread the games around to each part of the country - partly to make up for some of the snubs in the last qualification cycle.
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I thought that Brazil just submitted all of their stadiums over 40,000 and that was were the 18 came from. Here's a report I found that mentions their stadium situation.

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g1ne43ZsM0cZ2JKWg1XPWFCOzeqw

FIFA's inspection report has identified 18 grounds with more than 40,000 capacity that could host matches and these will be whittled down to nine or 10.

However, of the 18 four would have to be built from scratch and all of the other 14 undergo substantial renovation. FIFA inspectors said the Brazilian football federation had estimated £550million (1.1billion US dollars) as the budget for building and renewing the grounds but that figure appears very optimistic.
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It looks like regardless of how many they use there will be a major cost to go with it.

Manny Ramirez · Oct 31, 2007

pirc1 said:

Do you know earth will end on 2012?
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That is what I was going to say - exactly on December 21, at least according to the Mayans, and maybe even Einstein and Nostradamus!

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