Rebuilt Maracanã 'The Place To Be' Confed Cup Opener Marred By Protesters Confed Cup Features Record Coverage Brazil: We Will Be Ready For World Cup 145,000 Confed Cup Tickets Available Mega-Events Boost Development Rio Mayor Eyes Upcoming Events Rio's Olympic Stadium To Stay Closed Bank Ends Spanish Football Sponsorship Flamengo Signs Up CEOs To Save Club
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Rio De Janeiro's Rebuilt Maracanã Stadium The Place To Be At Confederations Cup06 / 18 / 13Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã stadium "got back to doing what it has always done best" Saturday, according to columnist Ben Smith of the BBC, who covered the event. Smith commented coming into the first competitive game to be played at the new Maracanã, "some feared that something has been... Tags: Facilities, Brazil |
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Confed Cup Opener Marred By Protesters
About 1,000 protesters complaining about the high cost of staging the World Cup "demonstrated in front of the National Stadium in Brasilia just hours before Brazil played Japan in the opening match of the Confederations Cup" on Saturday, according to Tales Azzoni of the AP. Riot and mounted pol ...
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Confed Cup Features Record Coverage
FIFA TV and its appointed host broadcaster HBS have secured record service bookings for broadcast coverage of the 2013 Confederations Cup. FIFA TV and HBS will provide content and broadcast services to 110 world feed takers and 45 commentary positions for the opening match in Brasilia. Media ri ...
Brazil: We Will Be Ready For World Cup
Brazil arrived at the one-year mark to the World Cup on Wednesday "admitting to mistakes in its preparations but vowing to get its act together in time," according to the AP. After facing difficulties getting its stadiums ready for the Confederations Cup, "Brazil is promising that things will be dif ...
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145,000 Confed Cup Tickets Available
Days from the start of the 2013 Confederations Cup, 145,000 of the 795,697 tickets that went on sale are still available for the tournament that begins Saturday in Brazil, according to LA AFICION. The game with the fewest tickets available is the match between Spain and Uruguay on June 16, with just ...
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Mega-Events Boost Development
The growing influence of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in world affairs was symbolized by the staging of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, "and will be further underlined by Brazil's forthcoming hosting of both events," a ...
Rio Mayor Eyes Upcoming Events
Among the nightmares haunting Rio de Janeiro Mayor EDUARDO PAES before next year's World Cup is "the possibility that his city could go down in history as the scene of a neighbour's greatest triumph," according to Jonathan Watts of the London GUARDIAN. Paes said, "If Argentina beat Brazil, in the ...
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Rio's Olympic Stadium To Stay Closed
A committee of engineers said that Rio de Janeiro's Joao Havelange stadium, scheduled to host the athletics at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, "is to stay shut for 18 months while the roof is repaired," according to Brian Homewood of REUTERS. The stadium, completed six years ago, "was closed in March ...
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Bank Ends Spanish Football Sponsorship
Spanish bank Banesto, owned by Spanish bank Santander, will not continue its sponsorship deal with the Spanish national football team, which was originally scheduled to last until after the 2014 World Cup, according to José Félix Díaz of EL CONFIDENCIAL. Santander's directors fe ...
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Flamengo Signs Up CEOs To Save Club
Brasileiro club Flamengo said it is “the most loved club in the world,” and the club "is counting on that affection to help rescue it from the taxman," according to Tariq Panja of BLOOMBERG. Flamengo may be the "most popular in Brazil," but it is "also the most indebted." Flamengo Presid ...
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Neymar Third-Highest Valued Footballer
Brazilian sports business consulting firm Pluri Consultoria has calculated that Neymar's market value has increased 22.6%, from €55M ($72M) to €67.4M ($88.2M), since his signing with Barcelona, according to the EFE. Pluri said, "The player transfer from Santos to Barcelona was decisive i ...
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