FIFA president Sepp Blatter has no doubt stadiums for the 2014 FIFA World Cup will be ready, despite several ‘small delays’.
Stadiums in Cuiaba and Curitiba appear unlikely to meet the December 31 deadline set ahead of next year’s showpiece event.
In Cuiaba, seat installations are causing the delay, Curitiba is unlikely to be ready before February and the stadium in Sao Paulo, where two construction workers were killed, has also been delayed.
Blatter, who expressed his regret about the accident in Sao Paulo, said Brazil needed to be trusted to have the World Cup ready.
“We know that there is and we have just received the report there are some small delays in construction of stadia,” Blatter said.
“But they are so small that with one exception we can just close our eyes and say everything will be ready.
“It is a question of trust and confidence when we go into an event like a FIFA World Cup.
“Here again I have to express our trust and confidence in the organisation here, in the state, central government and the different cities and the reports we have listened to today give us the security that we will go forward to a very positive one.”
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