Keith Weir – Reuters, 07/31/2012
Brazil will not be the finished article when it hosts the 2014 World Cup but the vast Latin American country will cope with hundreds of thousands of visitors to the tournament, its sports minister said on Tuesday.
In London for the Olympics, minister Aldo Rebelo said he was talking to sponsors and local organizers to ensure that Brazil’s poor and indigenous people were not locked out of the World Cup in a country that has won the tournament a record five times.
Brazil faces the daunting prospect of staging the biggest two events in world sport within two years – with Rio de Janeiro hosting the Olympics in 2016.
[...] that Rio has a big seat to fill as host of both 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics and some have even said this is a daunting prospect for Brazil. Despite this doubt, Brazil has announced various infrastructure projects such as building training [...]