FIFA, who has been criticized on several occasions by different experts of the business for giving too much leverage to Brazil, has again reiterated that WC organizers need to submit all the pending WC venues before soccer’s showcase event kicks off in June 2013. Notably, there are around 12 stadiums that are still behind their schedule despite allowing time extension on more than two occasions, and according to the governing body, they want six of them completed by the end of this year. Actually, the whole drama is being taken place to hide some of the materialistic facts about upcoming world cup and one of them is extensive protests in the host country. According to a survey conducted by an independent agency, here, in Brazil, more than half of the civilians are against of hosting a mega sporting event at the cost of their day-to-day necessities. Keeping these facts apart, FIFA is trying to emphasis over how preparation work is going on there. Jerome Valcke, the secretary general at FIFA, warned they will not tolerate any delay in meeting the rescheduled deadlines. We have seen in just concluded confederation cup that how some of the stadiums were incomplete and this scenario can again be repeated if governing body does not tighten its belt.
However, secretary general, admits that confederation cup was completed successfully despite there were several flaws on the ground level, including preparation of some of the stadiums. In fact, out of six stadiums, only two were ready by their given deadlines and remaining could only be completed just before world cup warm up event kicked off. Valcke said, “For us organizers a key focus is now on the 12 stadia, with a tighter monitoring naturally on the six arenas still under construction. The essential key to success of next year’s flagship event is that we can start setting up the complementary infrastructure … as of early 2014 across all stadia – earlier than we managed for the Confederations Cup in order to allow time for proper testing and adjustments.
“You cannot expect everything to run perfectly in brand new stadia. That is where we will concentrate our efforts, as we seek to ensure the FIFA World Cup will be a roaring success for the teams, the fans and, most importantly, for the host nation Brazil.”
Valcke plans to visit Brazil for a thorough inspection later this month and then he can better explain how preparation work is going on there.