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Maybe Sepp Blatter couldn't shut up with his ridiculous blathering this weekend because he hoped to
occlude some bad news from both South Africa and Brazil. There have long been concerns about the
safety and infrastructure in both places ahead of the World Cups in 2010 and 2014 respectively, and
those were seemingly amplified this [.
Pele believes that the way David Beckham was introduced to the US audience was 'very, very bad'
because he was introduced as 'a scorer of goals.'
But Beckham is not the only problem he sees for MLS as he also believes that the current salary cap
is hurting the game.
Pele believes MLS players' salaries need to be raised to the level of American football
or baseball players.
FIFA, world football's governing body, is expected to announce the site of the 2014 World Cup
October 29th.
Brazil is widely expected to be named the hosts.
Considering they're the only country in the running, I'd say their shot at winning selection is
pretty good ...
FIFA is trying to introduce a rotation policy to hosting the World Cup between the 6 regional
confederations.
Fifa made it official today, the rotational system will die after the 2014 Brazil finals, meaning
everyone except for little Oceania and Concacaf got a piece of the World Cup pie.
This comes as no surprise as Fifa boss Sepp Blatter has been hinting at this for some time now but
still, one has to wonder why Concacaf President and Blatter's BFF Jack Warner was not able to bring
his confederation the finals as he promised.
Back in 1930, Uruguay hosted the first ever World Cup and they want to do it again 100 years later.
However, they realize that the current version of the finals is a bit too big for them to do it
alone, so they have joined with neighbors Argentina for the right to host the 2030 World Cup.
AFA president Julio Grondona expressed his desire to help Uruguay host the event
through a formally written letter that was sent to the AUF headquarters in Montevideo earlier on in
the week.
The FIFA 2014 World Cup inspection tour of Brazil is underway. Representatives will visit five
candidate cities during their nine-day trip while 13 other cities will make their presentations in
Rio de Janeiro.
Although Brazil is the only country up for consideration to host the finals, they are not
guaranteed to win them. FIFA will want to know how the country plans to update their stadiums and
transportation options before they award them the 2014 cup.
Brazil sounds like a dream location for football fans to host the World Cup after next. Samba
nights. Kids playing barefoot on the beaches. A true festival of the beautiful game. And it surely
will be Brazil: earlier this week, FIFA's inspection group's report affirmed that "It would be
appropriate to choose Brazil as the [...]
Mark this under 'Sad News' in my eyes.
FIFA took the easy route to riches and ended their World Cup rotation policy, which rotated the
hosting of World Cups through its six continental confederations.
The rotation policy allowed countries like South Africa (2010) and Brazil (2014) the opportunity to
host the competition.
It's official.
Football's world governing body FIFA announced today that Brazil will host the 2014 World Cup, the
second time the five-time winner of the tournament will host the event.
Brazil were the only country bidding to host the finals, but their delegation went through the
formality of making a 30-minute presentation to the world governing body's executive committee in
Zurich earlier today, before being officially awarded the finals.
As the only nation in the running to get the 2014 World Cup, chances are very good that Brazil will
bring it home on Tuesday when they showcase their bid (the final FIFA announcement is not till Oct
30). However, as exciting as this is, they still need to address a number of issues such as the
poor state of the stadiums and even poorer transportation facilities.
The country that inspired the colors used on the World Cup trophy will indeed host the finals in
2014. Fifa made official what people have known for years when they voted today to award the South
American giants the honor of having the games.
Brazil has a little less than seven years to renovate/build stadiums and improve transportation
issues, hopefully not at the cost of social programs for their people.
It's been pretty much a well-known fact that Brazil was going to get to host the 2014 World Cup but
the official announcement still gives me jitters.
Brazil is now officially the host nation for the 2014 World Cup.
In soccer terms, there are few nations as deserving as Brazil to host a World Cup. The last time
Brazil hosted a World Cup, the nation had exactly zero World Cup titles.
