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Sunday 23 March 2014
World Cup 2014: It´s chaos in Brazil – but don´t panic
By Ian Herbert
The builder they call "Mr Luis" perhaps best defines the challenge Brazil has faced in staging a World Cup. With intense local pride, they've been wheeling him out at Arena Castelao, the stadium at Fortaleza on the country's north-east coast, because he has learned to read and write in classes offered to stadium workers there in their downtime.
"All of Brazil has heard my story," Mr Luis says, thrilled with skills which would be a given in any developed nation – but not here, in a country where the working class's lack of educational opportunities has, until recent years, left millions below a very low poverty line.
The World Cup which launches just over 80 days from now is being staged in a developing nation, and though the move from city to city reveals that sparkling Brazilian optimism that things will get done, the question of when is less easy to answer.
The new second airport terminal at Manaus, where 2,000 fans will arrive to see England play Italy on June 14, remains unfinished, and even on a regular, lazy Thursday afternoon this week there was a hot, 45-minute wait in the luggage check-in queue. Check-in machines to ease congestion are a forlorn hope. Work on three of the 12 stadiums remains unfinished: Cuiaba, due for completion next Friday; Sao Paulo (April 15) and Curitiba, where local organisers' chaotic engagement of 16 contractors rather than one project manager, means anestimated completion date in early May. […]
Fonte: The independent Journal. Disponível em http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/world-cup-2014-its-chaos-inbrazil-- but-dont-panic-9210299.html.
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