Brazil Needs Plenty of New Stadiums for World Cup 2014

September 14th, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that his country will need to build 12 new stadiums if it plans on hosting the 2014 World Cup. “We don’t have any stadium which is in a condition to host World Cup games,” Lula said during a speech. “We’re going to have to build at least 12 new stadiums in this country.”

Far be it from us to question a president, but surely a couple of Brazil’s existing stadiums could be renovated sometime during the next eight years. We also wonder how he came up with the number 12. While Germany had 12 stadiums in 2006, South Africa will have 10 venues in 2010.

In any case, we’re on record as saying we want Brazil to host the tournament, although the possibility of Colombia is very intriguing if only for the thought that we could see another pregame performance by Shakira.

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Zé

Right now, the idea of hosting a WC is far-fetched at best.

Yep, some of the stadiums could be fit for a World Cup. Pacaembu, Maracanã, Morumbi, and a lot lore around the country are good enough with a few changes. The problem is, there’s way too much to be done, and that’s stuff that has been needed many many years, but has never been done. You want to go to some stadium by car? Sure, but there won’t be anywhere to park it so you’ll have to leave it under the scrutinity of illegal ’street onlookers’ for a certain fee – that changes depending on how wealthy you look. Oh, you want to go by bus or by subway? Sure, but be sure to prepare for a very, very long trip, on crowded buses or trains, and the heavy traffic.

I’d love for the country to host a WC. It’s a personal dream of mine of seeing it happen here. But the way things are now, it’s impossible to deny the idea is a joke.
sandrahn

As a Brazilian who loves my country of origin and would absolutely LOVE to see this happen, I must agree entirely with Zé. I can’t see how this is going to be viable.
conceicao

Probably the best soccer facility in the U.S. is Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, TX – seats 21000+
with 18 skyboxes and was opened a year at a
cost of $80 million. Adjusting for the World
Cup minimum of about 40,000 seats and
trying to take into account prevailing wages,
etc in Brasil, I don’t see how each stadium
could run more than $120 million. 12 x $120
million comes in below $1.5 billion which is a
whole lot less money than Petrobras or Rio Doce makes in profits every three months. The fact that Brasil does not have the stadiums now
just points up the failings of the domestic league.
The government succeeded in jump-starting
world class aerospace and gasohol industries -
why not use the World Cup to do the same for
the domestic sports industry? Wasn’t Pele
pushing something like this line of thinking
when he was sports minister under Cardoso?
Diego

I think out of Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina, Argentina is the best place for it, im not saying this because i am from there, but because it is true, Argentina has tonnes of stadiums, that are in constant use and renovation.
Rivera

I really hope that they work it out and that FIFA allows Brazil to host the world cup! I’d love to go to Brazil and celebrate the world cup there.
sandrahn

“The government succeeded in jump-starting
world class aerospace and gasohol industries -
why not use the World Cup to do the same for
the domestic sports industry? ”

Good point. But it’s not the capability or the resources that I question – it’s the will.
conceicao

The real question here in terms of the competition is whether the Europeans who
want every other WC on the continent are going
to succeed in undercutting Fifa’s promise to
rotate the from federation to federation around
the world. Given that Argentina has defaulted on its sovereign debt within the last five years and are currently borrowing money from Chavez, I
don’t see how it could get financing for the
project. I think all of this talk about Argentina
as a potential host and the real and perceived
failings of South Africa is mainly political spin
so that Europe can grab the event back for
themselves. The U.S. and Mexico need to
make clear that they expect that the
competition will skip to North America as
per the scheduled rotation if Brasil drops out
for any reason.
http://www.uct.ac.za futebolblinger

It does’nt matter because brazilian govt has to get all the infrastructure like the way SA is going about, though there are still a few doubts but it can be done.
Diego

Argentina always has a a way of having a solution conceicao… fifa has talked to the president of AFA and he has said his country would have the honour of doing it and that it CAN do it..
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