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Article: Football: Brazil to host 2014 World Cup.(Sport)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2007
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Byline: By Martyn Ziegler in Zurich
Brazil have been formally appointed hosts of the 2014 World Cup and now face the daunting task of building or completely refurbishing every single one of their stadia for the tournament.
Fifa's inspection report has identified 18 grounds with more than 40,000 capacity that could host matches and these will be whittled down to nine or ten.
However, of the 18 four would have to be built from scratch and all of the other 14 undergo substantial renovation.
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