All 12 host stadiums for next year’s World Cup
will be ready on schedule in December, Brazilian Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo
said Monday.
“We are confident that we can deliver. We are not very late,” he told a press conference here.
“We are confident that we can deliver. We are not very late,” he told a press conference here.
And he brushed aside doubts over
whether the Arena Pantanal in Cuiaba, capital of the center-west state of Mato
Grosso, can be completed by the end of the year.
He said he expected the Cuiaba stadium,
which will host four World Cup games and is currently 85 percent complete, to
be delivered on time as agreed with football’s world governing body FIFA
Rebelo, meanwhile, said he did not
believe the World Cup, which kicks off in Sao Paulo on June 12, would be marred
by large-scale street protests such as those which rocked the country in June
over sub-standard social services, endemic corruption and the high cost of
staging the high-profile sporting event.
“It will be time to party rather than
protest,” he noted.
As to security concerns, he said:” We
cannot underestimate any kind of threat.”
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