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Brazil presents 'Copa 2014"
- From correspondents in Paris
July 31, 2007
BRAZIL, the only candidate bidding to host the 2014 World Cup, is set to officially present its case at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland tonight (AEST).
The South American delegation, headed by Brazil federation (CBF) president Ricardo Teixeira and including famous author Paulo Coelho and 1994 World Cup star Romario, is set to declare it has agreed to all the guarantees demanded by FIFA to host the event.
This first administrative step will put the bid, for what the Brazilians want to call "Copa 2014," officially into the FIFA system.
The Cup was last staged in Brazil in 1950, when it lost the final to Uruguay, a defeat which still rankles.
Brazil, which also hopes to host the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, wants to follow in the footsteps of Germany (1972 Olympic Games, 1974 World Cup), and Mexico (1968 Olympic Games, 1970 World Cup).
However, a senior European Interntaional Olympic Committee (IOC) member said last week that Rio is unlikely to be awarded the Olympics.
"IOC members don't like feeling they are the pudding, ie coming after another major sporting occasion," he said.
Agence France-Presse
