MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Dilma claims FIFA had pledged that stadiums would be built with private funds
As Brazil rushes to finish stadiums and deal with a wave of protests ahead of the June 12 kick-off, president Dilma Rousseff partly blamed FIFA for the spiraling World Cup bill but said the money spent would leave a positive legacy. Read full article
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Jun 05th, 2014 - 07:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0They are hosting the cup and it's FIFA's fault that it is costing so much and construction is delayed.
Correct me if I am wrong.
But do not the countries concerned submit a bid or in other words competes with others to host the competition?
Is it FIFA's remit to finance and build the venues?
So giving them what they asked for, makes it FIFA's fault.
If the Olympics is over budget and late, I suppose she is going to say it is the IOC's fault.
Whole new definition of idiocy!
1 RC to quote Meat Loaf...“you took the words right out of my mouth”.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 08:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0When you bid for these huge international sporting events the first thing you do is see if you can actually afford it.
Is it a South American “thing” that when they cock up the finances they blame everyone else but themselves.
I seem to recall all the big projects for London 2012 were ready a year before the games to allow time for testing.
Am I alone in being surprised that such a football friendly country had not the stadium already in place to host the world cup. Just leaving improvements in infrastructure.
My reaction to this story.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0My gob has never been so smacked!
Surely this is wrong!
Jun 05th, 2014 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil is the host and it is someone else's fault that things are costing too much?
This version of the interview with our President is very different from the version of El Pais/Madrid, Le Monde/Paris, A Bola/Portugal, Xinhua/China, Pravda/Russia.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Mercopress/Singapore version is negative. Very.
http://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2014/06/04/politica/1401885414_989129.html
For Brazil it's the spiralling costs, for Qatar it's the death rate of a cheap workforce working in ridiculous conditions
Jun 05th, 2014 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Apart from arranging the bribes they obviously didn't calculate what was needed when preparing their “bids”.
Brazil is sounding like Argentina,
Jun 05th, 2014 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0its always somebody else's fault and not their own...
Blame someone else: she must have been talking to CFK.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well I read Brasileiro's link @5 and it sounded the same.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dilma whinging and whining and making excuses for why things aren't going as planned.
Promise infrastructure not ready because there was not enough time - so why was it promised?
It seams Brazil signed up to a deal it couldn't achieve and FIFA probably knew that anyway.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wish the European FAs would simply abandon FIFA. It's become a ridiculously corrupt supranational merry-go-round. There's no need to spend billions just to organise a football tournament. It's utterly crazy. Apparently Qatar has a budget of £120bn. The way things are going that'll be the worst £120bn ever spent on advertising. It's helped the world realise what a vicious corrupt bigoted crap little country it is. Oh but it's got lots of gas so we have to be nice to them.
Dilma. Yes the stadiums could've been built with private funds, but it is up to the country that is awarded the World Cup to organise those private funds through sponsorship. It isn't the remit of FIFA to do it for you.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So you've had 7 years or so to organise this and now you're complaining that you've had to do it out of public funds? Where is all of the sponsorship money? Why hasn't it been funnelled into building the required infrastructure?
Or has it just disappeared into various officials pockets?
A tip for you Brazil. If you can't pay the bill, don't order the meal.
And if you think this is expensive, just wait until you get the bill for the greatest show on earth - the Olympics. That budget will dwarf the World Cups.
Haha...only a matter of time before they started to use that excuse. How long before they start to blame the West?
Jun 05th, 2014 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently its Greenland's fault,
Jun 05th, 2014 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0something abt supplying Green grass for playing on,
And Iceland, for not, now supplying the ice-lollies..lol
@9 Anglotino
Jun 05th, 2014 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is the Training Center of the Australian National Team in Cariacica city, Espírito Santo State (land from Escoses Doido's wife).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM0B2r-QQ0Y
14. Is it anywhere near this?
Jun 05th, 2014 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9E9Au-6Urs
I do not know enough about the Rio de Janeiro to know exactly where that is. But I agree with the strong arm of the State to recover the territories of the drug lords. I agree that the State use of force to restore order in areas dominated by thugs and hooligans.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC3kUEKpaJQ&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=4
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Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Troll shift change again? You must know that the strong arm of the State will not pacify the Favelas surely, it has gone on for too long. Can't wait till the World Cup to see all the problems surface, never mind the football. I shall be glued to the TV watching all the protests.
@17
Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you, Troll. Least one English here.
Brasileiro I've not once ever clicked on a link provided by you.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not even when you English gets this good.
Perhaps you should create more than one login and then I can ignore the illiterate Brasileiro.
Anglotino, so you did not read the link in 5 post. And you said you had read.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Liar!
I should have said youtube link. I stand corrected.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow, when does the guy with bad English start his shift?
Why don't you guys have your own personal logins. It' a running joke on here.
I mean, who pays you to make Brazil look so bad? I don't understand why people like you dislike Brazil so much.
You are unreliable, man.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is being reported here differently.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This article is not what was is reported here. There was never, ever any announcement or report of FIFA paying for all construction, nor was that expectation 7 years ago.
100 % FIFA funding was also not the expectation previously in South Africa either.
Former President Lula and his administration fought very hard for the right to hold the World Cup and Olympics here, promising it could be done with a mix of public and private funding.
The fact that it is 97 % public funds speaks for itself, and is the cause for the resentment.
“You are unreliable, man.”
Jun 06th, 2014 - 02:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps.
But at least there's only one Anglotino using this login.
@24 There is probably only one computer for a lot of people to share in the favela. I think that accounts for the different people posting here under one name.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Only a couple of more days to go.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0What drugs is this woman taking I want some. FIFA said the stadiums will be built with private money? How would FIFA know, it was Brazils bid not FIFAs bid.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0The tournament has triggered lots of transport infrastructure projects........ which won't be finished until after the tournament.
None of this of course Brazils fault. Still at least the atmosphere in Brazil will make up for the incompetent organisation.
“Dilma, who is seeking reelection in October, said FIFA had assured Brazil that host stadiums would be built with private money. But the government eventually realized private-sector investment would not even cover “half a stadium,” and provided most of the financing itself, Rousseff told journalists at a dinner at the presidential residence in Brasilia”
Jun 14th, 2014 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@27 RICO, I second that. Right from the start, and right to the bitter end, the b*tch claimed the funds would be private, despite undeniable evidence to the contrary.....and now, she's trying to tell us she didn't know that the Federal Government wasn't shelling out billions of dollars of taxpayer money to pay for all the stadiums ?? All crap.
As for the infrastructure being built around some of the stadiums - not all of them - is is still too little, too late ; why is that only NOW they “realize” that the previous infrastructure was lacking in every way ??? and after the Cup all investments will stop....wait 'n see....
As for the billions spent on the stadiums, most of it will go to waste - in several locations where the stadiums have been built , it would take at least 50 times the paying public for one game, to fill the stadiums...great planning !!
@19 Anglotino...you've probably realized that the Brazzo on posts 5, 16, 18, 20 & 22, is not the same asshole as the original poofta who started posting (utter gibberish, and still does) under the name of “Brasileiro”.
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