Brazil World Cup: Six stadiums to miss Fifa deadline

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Brazil has admitted all its stadiums still under construction for the 2014 football World Cup will not be ready by Fifa’s original 31 December deadline.

Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo said the six venues – in Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Cuiaba, Manaus and Natal – would be finished in January.

Construction problems – coupled with public protests about the money being spent – have delayed the preparations.

Fifa, football’s ruling body, agreed this week to extend its deadline.

The World Cup – the world football’s biggest event – kicks off on 12 June in Sao Paulo’s Arena Corinthians, where two people died last week after a construction crane collapsed.

05.12.2013
MEDIA