Colombia Challenge Brazil To Host 2014 World Cup

If they couldn’t find the financial $$ to host the 1986 world cup, how can they host the even bigger 2014?

Besides, any tourist fan who wants to be kidnaped should then go there.

hold it man, i know some cool peaps from columbia, just bring a swiss army-knife!

To all appearances Columbia have a snowball’s chance in hell of hosting …
however, its easy to forget that Brazil have problems of their own at the moment with large gang controlled ghettos and mafias able to openly attack police over prisoner relocation plans. (Well at least this is the appearance of Brazil we get on the news down here)

so if Brazil gets worse (I hope not!), and (somehow) Columbia gets better then who knows what might happen …

Haha that’s so horrible to say TITI! But probably true… I mean they were too poor to do it in 1986, and in the 2001 Confederations Cup, Argentina (a pretty huge team, naturally) withdrew cuz they were scared of terrorist threats they were getting (so did Canada actually but it makes no sense that they were there… :-P)

That’s pretty far-fetched. So much that it’s a bit funny. Sorry Colombia supporters.

In fact, Argentina is probably the only SA country right now that can get closed to hosting the WC. Of course I’d love to say Brazil can do it, but right now this is simply not true. We don’t have enough good stadiums. Yeah, with the advent of a WC that can be done, here’s to hope we can pull it and build a bunch of stadiums in just a few years, but the few biggest/best stadiums we have right now are complete crap from like the middle ages… you can’t even begin to compare them to the ones you’d see on Germany, or Korea/Japan.

Nicko: those attacks on the Police are very much real (it’s on my city, São Paulo), but you can say it’s isolated events. Of course they’re also kind of blown out of proportion (we’re not *used* to it around here so people get scared very easily), but the problem still exists. I have my bit of doubts regarding that issue too… that could shun WC visitors away very easily. Specially because we live on this big, chaotic, immense city, so it’s impossible to have tight control on it all.

Argentina being scared of terrorist threats sounds like a personal problem. If I read the Wiki article correctly it said that there were NO terrorist incidents during the games. In fact, Argentina drew criticism for backing out, not Colombia. That said, the 2001 Copa America was simply successfull in Colombia and not deserving of the “semi-successfull” annotation by Daryl.

As a Colombian who has recently travelled to the country, I can honestly say that all the kidnapping and terrorist jibba jabba is really blown out proportion. Colombia has come a long way since the 80s. The country is probably as safe as the rest of the countries in South America. Tourists don’t need to fear for their lives travelling there.

I can’t speak so much for the economic status of the country but the bad rep Colombia has for terrorism and kidnappings has stuck far too long.

Anyway, I’ll be happy no matter where the Cup is and I’ll probably travel to either country.

P.S. The South American country we are talking about does not have the letter ‘u’ in it. Very common, and rather annoying, spelling error.

One tip, the wife of Nicolas Leoz, President of the Conmebol is Colombian, so we could except a little of “pressure” from that side.

Colombia after the “Plan Colombia” has a lot of economic support from USA, so probably there will be some back up from american companies if there is a chance of organizing the WC.

In the last year I heard a proposal to offer the WC to Chile and Argentina, after the success of the Korea/Japan WC, and in that way the countries will not have much economic problems, because they will split the number of stadiums that will be need.

But a WC in Brazil will be great, imagine the mix between football, caipirinhas, garotas and nice beaches… at least for me, great mixture.

Red,

Noted, agreed and corrected.

They must give it to BRAZIL, I still dream how would it be, you know walks on the beach and girls shackin what their mama’s gave’em and so do their moms…….anyways my point is COLOMBIA is definately going to be a disaster as those gangs over are worst than brazilian and South African gangsterz…….

I think the best choose is argentina , is more more better than brazil and so colombia is the worse ,becouse is not safe at all.

What about Guatemala? or Nicaragua?

Argentina ia my choice. Give it to Brasil and they will cheat to win another cup once again. (remember 2002 against Turkey and Belgium???)

I’d pick Columbia over Brasil any day!

Anyhow, if it goes to Brasil, I’ll most definitely bet a few thounsand $$’s on them. May as well profit from their win.

It should most definitely be brought back to Brasil, where the sport belongs ;-) Comparing the present day economy to 1986’s is unrealistic. Sure there will be myriad security problems to deal with, but that’s also true of Colombia. Brasil is far better equipped.

Basically, wherever the world cup will be held outside of the first world, you’ll hear people running their mouths about safety this and safety that. As if there were no ghettos in Atlanta. Left to some people, only European, countries, the U.S and Canada and one or two Asian countries should ever host the world cup.

I think brasil will be fine. I am less confident about Colombia — but I am sure that even they will rise up to the event if need be.

I is incredible how people can be full of prejudice. Anyone that has been in colombia knows there is no country in the world like it, AND THIS IS TRUE. I hope the lord gives the world a chance to see the great event colombia will organize. I’m not saying Brasil is a bad choice, but lets let Fifa decide, any country can compete and the colombian people have the capacity

Well said, Pavla. I was thinking the same thing.

No matter where the World Cup is held, that country will rise to the occasion and do their best to make it a successful event.

Brazil is the biggest economy in Latin America. It´s the only country that could really come up with the money to make such event happen. In ´86 democracy had just been reinstalled. Now it´s a whole different deal. The Brazilian economy is strong and plays an important role in the world economy. Things are not all bad as people might think.
And for those who don´t know, Brazil has all the comodities of a rich country. Remember, the news are only interested in showing the bad stuff. It´s not all like that in the everyday life.
If South Africa can host the tournament, why can´t Brazil? After all, the African country has as much social problems as Brazil.
For a country with the number one football team and where football is like a religion, I think Brazil is the most suitable place in South America to host the World Cup for 2014.

Vicki, from canada, are you crazy brazil would never cheat. Brazilians are born with soccer balls in there mothers whom, its the country where the greatest soccer players come from. Brazilians are just born amazingly(if thats a real word) good.

But being a Colombian american, Colombia isnt that bad. I went to Colombia in 2004 with my girl friend, a blond, polish, pale girl and neither me nor her felt threatend. Its not the 80’s where Escobar is trying to take over the country. Those days of really bad terrorism are pretty much behind us. Yes, we do have some economical problems, but the support of american companies we’ll be fine. Don’t think of colombia by its bloody past, thats what it is, the past.

Well. Im argentinian, and for me the WC to be held in Argentina would be awesome, and Argentina CAN 100% do it by themselves, and chile cant, and dont want to host it, especially side by side with argentina. another reason is because most likely they Will not qualify for the WC, but Argentina is most likely, if its not Argentina.. than im saying its going directly to the U.S

i think colombia should host the wc 2014 because they havnt hosted it yet. Also if brazil or argentina hosted it, it would just be boring because they would definetly win it

i think the wc 2014 should be held in oceania in new zealand coz im new zealander nd it hasnt been held there yet, but supose they are pretty rubbish at football.

y do so many of u think colombia is such a bad country its not like u have ever gone there so stop judging a country that u have never been to.colombia is beautiful there will be no better place than colombia to host the WC.

Wait a minute TITI! Colombia had the money to host 1986 WC. The president said no, because he wanted to build school and hospitals, the problem is that they didn’t built them! fukin presindent lol

MEXICO IS THE BEST PLACE TO DO IT 2014 BECAUSE IS THE RICHEST LATIN COUNTRY AND IT ALREADY HAS THE EXPERIENCE OF A WORLD CUP. MEXICO IS ALSO BRINGING ITS ECONOMY A LOT, YOU WOULDNT BELEIVE IT. PLUS IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE UNITED STATES. MEXICO IS ALSO MORE SAFETY THAN ANY OTHER LATIN COUNTRY.

i think it would be great if they do it in colombia because brazil has many more problems than colombia for examplae gang problems, mafia, and is one of the poorest countries in the world, while in the other hand Colombia has very beutiful things i went there last summer i loved it and i didint get kidnaped. the “guerrilla” is not that bad in colombia no more because of the great work that president Alvaro Uribe Velez has done in that plecent country……

colombia CAN aford a WORL CUP there because it does not have that many economic problems any more….

would be great to have a WC in Colombia, is a magical contry, really! you have to go there to see really how is this place!

It just seems Brazil doesnt have the stadia at the moment but does Colombia? Surely not. I really hope one of the S.American countries can host it in 2014 as it’s already been 28 years since the World Cup was in the continent. Seems that Argentina is the safest bet to organise it properly but last time S.America had it it was hosted by them. Time for someone new to host it, Colombia would be good, but better Brazil or Agentina than a nation in another continent.

they should do it in cuba.!! jajajaaaj