{"id":46492,"date":"2014-01-23T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=46492"},"modified":"2014-01-23T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T11:15:16","slug":"brazil-will-be-able-to-organize-the-world-cup-2014-breaking-news-46492","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/brazil-will-be-able-to-organize-the-world-cup-2014-breaking-news-46492\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil will be able to organize the World Cup 2014 ? \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff\u00a0\u00a0faces a showdown with the head of FIFA over the country’s preparations for the World Cup.<\/h1>\n

Dilma Rousseff opened a new stadium on Wednesday, but Sepp Blatter has described Brazil as more behind than any other previous host country.<\/p>\n

It is not just stadiums but also infrastructure which is still not built with 140 days until kick-off.<\/p>\n

The road to Recife Stadium is yet to be finished and one worker told Sky News they would meet the April deadline “in theory”.<\/p>\n

Fifa does not like theories – it wants big solid structures.<\/p>\n

And as Fifa Secretary General Jerome Valcke completed this week’s tour of Brazil, he was concerned that some stadiums were not yet there.<\/p>\n

Ms Rousseff showed no doubts as she kicked a ball to inaugurate Natal’s stadium. “Enchanted”, is how she described the feeling.<\/p>\n

She is travelling to Switzerland to meet Mr Blatter, who has so far been critical of Brazil’s progress.<\/p>\n

Of \u00a0the 12 World Cup stadiums, six were completed for the Confederation’s Cup last year, and with the Arena Das Dunas in Natal now open, that leaves five incomplete.<\/p>\n

The worst is in Curitiba – described this week by Mr Valcke as “dangerous” and currently “meeting no Fifa standards”.<\/p>\n

Officials have been given four weeks to present a solution or face losing their World Cup fixtures.<\/p>\n

Mr Valcke also found the Pantanal stadium in Cuiaba was behind schedule with patchy grass and only 40 of 40,000 seats in place.<\/p>\n

As for Sao Paulo, where an accident delayed work last November, he was confident the Itaquerao stadium would be ready, but only weeks before the opening match on the June 12.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the December deadline for completion had been missed in Porto Alegre and Manaus, where England are due to play their first game.<\/p>\n

The jungle stadium is 95% complete and the British ambassador to Brazil, Alex Ellis visited it on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“I’m pleased to see that the stadium is almost complete. I am certain that it is going to be a fantastic game on June 14,” he said.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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