Brazil WC stadiums

[Russ35]

Been a bit in the press over the last week about some of the stadiums being well behind schedule and won't meet FIFA's deadline.

Well this afternoon there has been an accident at the Arena Corinthians. Looks like the final truss has collapsed, landing on the end of the stand.

Reports of 3 killed and many injured.

R.I.P

Edited by Russ35 on Wednesday 27th November 16:13

[im]

They really are having a helluva bad time over the staging of the World Cup in Brazil aren't they?

[The jiffle king]

wow… that looks horrendous.

[Cheib]

Wow. That's horrendous. Surely there has to be some kind of reality check ? Genuine accidents do happen but you fear that in two days we'll hear the accident happened because shortcuts were taken to meet deadlines etc.

[Russ35]

Appears it might be a crane collapse.

[extraT]

That is terrible. RIP.

Out of interest, What kind of "due dillagence" is done to award a world cup?

Looking at:

Brazil (poor infastructure, large country, known crime, poor transport, few fans which fill up domestic stadiums)
Qatar (heat, expensive, slave workers (alleged, corruption, alleged))
Russia (corruption (alleged), large country, dubious local transport outside of Moscow, expensive)

It looks like FIFA have ensured a decade of negative press, making themselves look like (even more) incompetent chumps.

Now, ruling out bribes taken by fifa(allegidly), why havent FIFA gone for at least one "safe" option, such as Italy, the UK, Australia etc....

Interestingly their WIKI page says that the 2018 or 22 bidding maybe reopened because of corruption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_hosts#2018_and_2022_FIFA_World_Cups)

With this accident and the doubt that went before it, is there a possibility of the UK "stepping in" to rescue the WC next year? We have the stadiums, transport, number of fans, etc... I doubt it will happen, but is there a possibilty?

[Russ35]

You can see the FIFA Bid Evaluation Report for both 2018 and 2022 at the link below.

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competi...

You will notice on page 5 that all the bid countries have a 'Overall operational risk' rating of 'Low Risk' except for 2 bids,one 'Medium Risk' and one 'High Risk'. Guess which those 2 bid countries are.


Back to Brazil.

They have 12 cities hosting games, although FIFA only ask for a minimum of 8. Brazil is that big and everyone wants a bit of the pie, they went with 12. I think there are 6 stadiums that are behind schedule.



To see pictures of the stadiums, the best place is over at http://www.skyscrapercity.com

Edited by Russ35 on Wednesday 27th November 18:19

[Victor McDade]

extraT said:

Out of interest, What kind of "due dillagence" is done to award a world cup?

Who needs due diligence when you have:

and


Sad state of affairs - RIP.

[hornetrider]

Another death in an industrial accident at a stadium, this time at Manaus. Poor chap fell 100ft+ from the roof when a cable snapped

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-253830...