FIFA president Sepp Blatter has accused Brazil of
being badly prepared with five months to go before it hosts this year's World
Cup.
Six of the host nation's 12 stadiums have failed to
meet FIFA’s 31 December completion deadline.
Three workers have been killed in recent accidents
at stadiums in Sao Paulo and Manaus.
“No country has been so far behind in preparations
since I have been at FIFA,” Blatter told a Swiss newspaper.
I think this
shows just how badly the Brazilians are doing when Sepp Blatter feels the need
to step in and criticise, if Blatter is criticising you for your organisational
skills then you know you’ve got big, big problems.
Of course Blatter is right and the Brazilians are
well behind and deserve some criticism but is he really the one to do it, when
reading his comments the phrase those in glass houses.....comes to mind.
The thing is though, no matter what the event, no
matter what the sport, in fact scratch that just in general it seems anywhere
in the world where there’s a major building project to complete it is almost
never completed on time, in this case Brazil has had seven years to prepare and
with a little over five months to go to the opening game half the stadiums aren’t
finished, how does that happen?
That leads me to FIFA’s selection policy, why do
they pick nations to host that have either renovate all of their existing, or
build all the new stadiums for the tournament from scratch, you’re asking for
trouble if you do that.
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