Brazil world cup has become a hot commodity among sports journalists as they seem to be ready with new topic every other day to criticize the ground realities in this South American State and if it could successfully host the mega soccer event. There have been many debates over the speed of preparation work going on over there and every time a big media house raises this question work-in-progress speeds up, but for the first time, a notable has raised his concerns about the rapidity which is uncontrollable to some extent. Yes, we are talking about none other than FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke who confesses that the filing speed for readying stadiums for the FIFA event could be the biggest mistake for local organizing committee as it could lead to drastic failure on the last moment or during the tourney which would be even more shameful for Brazil as they are already passing through lots of attacks for their expenditure, hospitality, and domestic consensus to host a multibillion sports event while their economy is passing through a bad phase. Valcke said this after his recent review visit to Brazil where three stadiums in Curitiba, Cuiaba, and Sao Paulo are still not ready, however, according to some insiders; they would eventually be complete by the last moment.
Generally, in every world cup, every stadium after being declared as complete, has to be inspected by the FIFA investigation team to find out any last minute mistake, but this time which would probably be the only time in the history of this event that most of the stadiums would be handed over for the matches immediately after completion which could be the cause of greatest humiliation for both FIFA and Brazilian FA. What Valcke told to the reporters in RIO is, “We are late and we will have challenges. And we will have a lot of work, and potentially some risks coming at the last minute because we have not tried and tested all the facilities.
“It’s a lesson and definitely we will act differently, We will have to find a different way of working for Russia 2018.”
Specifically talking about Sao Paulo, he pointed out their urge to choose among these venues as there is no other place to host a WC event, he added, “We don’t yet have a solution. We will have 12 host cities; we will have 12 stadiums but there is work to do. Time is flying. It will happen in Sao Paulo – there is no other choice even if we will maybe be a bit borderline. You have thousands of people who have bought tickets. … We have to work all together to make sure it will happen.”