2014 FIFA WORLD CUP™ SOCCER BRAZIL

The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th World Cup, an international tournament for football, that is expected to take place between June and July 2014 in Brazil.

This will be the second time the country has hosted the competition, the first being the 1950 FIFA World Cup. It will be the first World Cup to have been held in South America since the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina and the first time consecutive World Cups have been staged in the Southern Hemisphere.

Seventeen cities showed interest in being chosen as World Cup host cities, FIFA gave the green light to the 12-city plan. Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São Paulo.

With games traditionally played in a variety of locations throughout the host country, this is likely to showcase many of the country's major cities, potentially boosting interest from both holidaymakers and overseas property investors.

With football being a way of life in Brazil, there is no shortage of stadia that will be capable of hosting matches when the World Cup begins. A reported 1 billion dollars is to be approved for the repair, upgrading and maintenance of Brazilian stadia. However, aiming to build "state of the art" stadia and, therefore, increasing their chances to be part of 2014's tournament, some Brazilian states are searching for expertise abroad.

LINK TO STADIUMS:

http://www.footballworldcupbrazil2014.com/BrazilianStadiums.html