Today, FIFA announced the countries which will host the World Cup of 2018 (Russia) and of 2022 (Qatar).
Inspired by that event, many people are searching for information about the World Cup 2014 in Brazil.
So, follows a brief description of the situation as of today, December 2nd 2010:
The host cities were announced in May of 2009. FIFA and the Brazilian Federation chose 12 cities as hosts: Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Salvador, Recife, Fortaleza, Natal, Manaus and Cuiaba.
The first match of the Cup should be on June 13th 2014 (a Friday), and the final match on July 13th 2014 (a Sunday). It will be winter in Brazil, but weather will be fine in most of the cities.
Qualifyings haven’t started yet. Brazil is the only country with a secured place in 2014.
Nothing has been officially said about how tickets will be sold.
None of the twelve stadiums is not even close to being ready. It is not official yet, but it is certain that the final match of the Cup will be in Maracanã. São Paulo, the city with the best infrastructure in Brazil, will probably host the opening match (this assuming that this stadium will be ready by then; Morumbi is definitively ruled out).
While stadiums are delayed, the biggest concern is with the infrastructure, particularly the aiports; several organizations have issued warnings about the bottlenecks in Brazilian airports – see here, here and here.
FIFA and the Brazilian LOC say that they are confident that everything will be ready for 2014.
