Menu
Events and Attractions

Brazil Transportation Worries Mounting On Heels Of 2014 FIFA World Cup

The public transport projects designed to modernize Brazilian cities for the 2014 World Cup "are being scaled back, delayed or cancelled as legal challenges, corruption and a lack of planning threaten to rob locals of the tournament's most lasting legacy," according to Andrew Downie of REUTERS. The 12 host cities, keen to use the event to overhaul aging urban infrastructure, "laid out ambitious plans to build new metro lines, monorails and dedicated bus lanes" but, with 15 months to go before the games kick off, "it seems unlikely that all the projects will come to fruition." Former Brazilian World Cup winner and now lawmaker in Brazil's Congress Romario said, "The much-discussed social legacy looks like it won't get off the drawing board. Almost all the transport projects are behind schedule, some have been put back and will be opened only after the World Cup and others have been cancelled altogether." Federal Audits Court who monitors World Cup planning official Valmir Campelo said that five cities -- Brasilia, Fortaleza, Manaus, Salvador and Sao Paulo -- "would not have the promised tram lines, express lanes for buses or metro links ready for the opening match on June 12." World Cup organizers "play down the setbacks and say the host cities are still being transformed." Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo argues that other big sporting events, such as the 2012 and 2008 Olympics, "had similar teething problems." Nevertheless, it "seems clear that the situation is not as rosy as it was supposed to be" (REUTERS, 3/5)

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2013/03/08/Events-and-Attractions/wc.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2013/03/08/Events-and-Attractions/wc.aspx

CLOSE