Brazil gets ready to present a bid to host the 2014 World
Cup
Brazil will declare its bid to host the 2014 World Cup on Wednesday, hoping
to return soccer's showcase event to the country for the first time since
1950.
Brazilian Soccer Confederation president Ricardo Teixeira
will present the bid to FIFA in Tokyo, where many officials from the ruling
body are attending the Club World Cup. FIFA will announce the 2014 host
next November.
As part of FIFA's continental rotation policy, the 2014 championship is
set for South America. The 2010 Cup is scheduled for South Africa.
Brazil, the only five-time winner of the World Cup, may be the only candidate
and is widely considered a favourite to land the 2014 tournament. In the
1950 World Cup in Brazil, the host country lost 2-1 to Uruguay in the
final.
Brazil must meet a series of requirements from FIFA regarding stadiums,
hotels and transportation. If Brazil fails to meet the standards, Canada
and the United States might be possible candidates.
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December 12, 2006.
Brazil to make official bid for 2014 World Cup
By Brian Homewood
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Brazil will officially inform FIFA
on Wednesday of its bid to host the 2014 World Cup, the Brazilian Football
Confederation (CBF) announced on Tuesday.
"The president of the CBF (Ricardo Teixeira) will make official Brazil's
candidacy to be hosts of a World Cup again after 64 years," said
a statement on the CBF's Web site.
"The presentation of the Brazilian candidacy will be made in Tokyo."
Teixeira and the FIFA directors are in Japan for the Club World Cup.
South America is due to host the 2014 World Cup under the rotation system
introduced by FIFA, which starts in South Africa in 2010.
Brazil have been hot favourites to stage the tournament since 2003 when
the other nine South American nations agreed to back them as the continent's
only candidates.
However, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said last week that Brazil were by
no means certain to host the event.
Critics say that only one Brazilian stadium, the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba,
is currently in condition to host a World Cup finals match.
Public safety and transport are also serious worries.
Last week, two of Brazil's top judges became the latest victims of Rio
de Janeiro's notorious criminals when they were car-jacked on the highway
from the airport to the city centre.
Earlier this year, more than 200 people, including police and gangsters,
were killed in Sao Paulo during a wave of attacks on banks, police posts
and government offices blamed on the organised crime gang known as the
First Command of the Capital.
Brazil has also been hit by crisis in air transport after the country's
worst air crash on Sept. 29 in which 154 people died.
Air traffic controllers have gone on a work-to-rule which has caused hundreds
of delays and cancellations.
With almost no passenger-carrying railways and a decaying highway system,
Brazil depends almost exclusively on air transport for long-distance travel.
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