Own Goals from Senhor Futebol; Football in Brazil  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8753 (Oct. 2011), page 43-44.
Topik: Professional Soccer; Tournaments & Championships; Politics; Civil Engineering; Problems

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It is the only country to have played in the final stages of every football World Cup and it has won it five times, more than anybody else. So Brazil feels proprietorial about the tournament, which it is to host in 2014. Another victory, good football and a party atmosphere would satisfy the demanding home fans, as well as many of the 600,000 expected from abroad. But for Brazil's government the run-up to the tournament is not going well. It is becoming clear that promised improvements to the country's creaking transport systems are unlikely to amount to much. The government is trying to damp down expectations. In an interview with Carta Capital, a weekly magazine, Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, said that the urban-transport improvements were not essential for the tournament's success. Miriam Belchior, the planning minister, suggested that the government would declare holidays on match days to avoid traffic jams. Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, world football's governing body, has written to Ms Rousseff expressing concern. But Ms Rousseff has cause to worry about FIFA. Just when she is doing her best to clean up the country's politics--she has sacked four ministers over corruption claims--the World Cup is being run by one of football's most tarnished figures. And claims of sleaze keep on coming.

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