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Article: Brazil Wins Right to Host 2014 World Cup
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- October 30, 2007
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ZURICH, Switzerland - Brazil was chosen host of the 2014 World Cup on Tuesday, returning the showcase event to the soccer-mad country that held the tournament in 1950 and has captured the title a record five times.
Brazil was the only candidate and won in a unanimous vote by the executive committee of the sport's governing body.
"Soccer is not only a sport for us," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said. "It's more than that: Soccer for us is a passion, a national passion."
FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Brazil now has "not only the right, but the responsibility" to organize the 2014 tournament. Blatter then handed the World Cup trophy to Lula.
Lula, who flew in for the ...