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A new era dawns
The first of the stadiums that will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ was handed over on Sunday, some 15 days before the initial deadline agreed with FIFA and the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Organising Committee (LOC) in 2007.
Boasting a capacity of 64,000, the Estadio Castelao in Fortaleza heralds a new era in Brazilian football, with 12 safe, comfortable, sustainable and state-of-the-art stadiums...
Brazil to inaugurate first 2014 World Cup arena
The Castelao Arena in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza (Photo: AFP),
President Dilma Rousseff travels Sunday to the northeastern city of Fortaleza to inaugurate the first Brazilian stadium readied for the 2014 World Cup, an arena built in part by using prison labour.
With its 67,000-seat capacity, the renovated arena, ringed by metallic structures that look like sails floating in the wind, is one of...
