The Brazil World Cup 2014 is getting nearer and nearer but the venues for the play-offs are still unfinished, and if FIFA's president Sepp Blatter is right, then Brazil may have been the worst host country so far. Blatter even bluntly criticized Brazil for its failure to meet the December 31 deadlines of six of the 12 host stadia to be used in the Summer World Cup 2014.
Blatter even singled out that because of the series of Brazil's failure to meet its deadlines work on hotels, airports and roads have also been greatly affected.
The Guardian reports that Brazil has had seven years to comply to these deadlines since it was also seven years ago when this year's host country was awarded the tournament while previous host countries only had six years and some even had less preparation time than Brazil now have.
In his statement to the Swiss paper 24 Heures, Blatter pointed out that Brazil "has started to work much too late" despite the very long preparation time it was provided with.
"No country has been so far behind in preparations since I have been at FIFA even though it is the only host nation which has had so much time - seven years - in which to prepare."
According to the Independent, South Africa did a better job than Brazil although it's a much less wealthy country than the World Cup 2014's host country. South Africa even had to build all of its 2010 venues from scratch.
Multiple reports said that the construction of three stadia in Brazil is to most likely end in the middle of April or just a few weeks prior to the official start of the tournament on June 12.
Now things are left uncertain since according to Blatter in his statement early December, there is "no plan B" in case there is additional delay for the unfinished stadia.
It can be noted that work on the Itaquera Arena in Sao Paulo for the Brazil World Cup 2014, which is to serve as venue for the opening ceremony, was tested because two workers died in November and other issues popped out of the blue.
Although it was reported earlier that the Brazilian government had announced that completion of the stadia is due February, FIFA declared a day after the announcement that the new deadline will be on April 15th.
"I am an optimist not a pessimist. So I am not worried. But we do know there will be again be manifestations, protests. Those during the Confederations Cup - in this same country - were generated out of the social networks," Blatter said.
"There was no specific goal but during the World Cup the protests will perhaps be more concrete, more organised. But I also believe the football will be safe, I do not believe that Brazilians will attack the football directly. For them, it's a religion."
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