World Cup 2014 Hosts

[Peschi]

Brazil stands alone in 2014 World Cup race

Brazil is the only remaining candidate to host the 2014 World Cup following Colombia's withdrawal.

Officials from the Brazilian football association (CBF) were in Zurich today to submit the bidding agreement to FIFA.

Colombia withdrew its application on Wednesday and FIFA confirmed in a statement today that Brazil is the only remaining candidate.

The president of the Colombian FA, Luis H Bedova Giraldo, did not offer any explanation for his country's withdrawal in a letter to FIFA.

Brazil now has until July to provide FIFA with government guarantees regarding its ability to host the competition.

FIFA officials will then visit the South American nation in September before the FIFA executive committee confirms the host nation of the tournament in November of this year.

[gw]

would that mean games on in the middle of the night?

[ovechkin8]

No gw. The games would be organised such that they would be on at peak viewing figures in Europe .So expect kick offs at around 4pm in Brazil onwards around 7pm here.

Having seen the state of many Brazilian stadia they have a hell of a job to do in getting them up to scratch to modern standards.

Bit of a coup for Brazil as they no longer Jao Havelange to fix some dubious decisions in past World Cups in their favour.

Would have been better to spread the WC between the 3 colossi( well 1 is really an ex colossi seeing the collapse of street football in Uruguay) of S.America along the lines of 2002.