http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ands-World-Cup-2014-opener-against-Italy.html
Check out the state of the field from the stadium in Manaus, a city in the middle of the jungle that is set to host England-Italy on Saturday.
"The playing surface is noticeably dry and sandy and particularly bare around one of the goals, with large yellowing areas of turf.
The rest of the stadium is not completely finished, with naked power cables dangling from the walls of the changing rooms and workers still applying a final coat of asphalt outside the ground. Several security doors are also waiting to be fitted at the stadium where a construction worker died last year after falling from the roof."
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Completely absurd state of affairs for a World Cup. That looks like something you'd see in a poorly-maintained neighborhood park
Check out the state of the field from the stadium in Manaus, a city in the middle of the jungle that is set to host England-Italy on Saturday.
"The playing surface is noticeably dry and sandy and particularly bare around one of the goals, with large yellowing areas of turf.
The rest of the stadium is not completely finished, with naked power cables dangling from the walls of the changing rooms and workers still applying a final coat of asphalt outside the ground. Several security doors are also waiting to be fitted at the stadium where a construction worker died last year after falling from the roof."
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Completely absurd state of affairs for a World Cup. That looks like something you'd see in a poorly-maintained neighborhood park
There have been similar looking playing surfaces in German Bundesliga, European cup competitions and other supposedly top leagues. Weather conditions in Manaus are far from ideal and even teams like Bayern Munich had problems for a long time to get the playing surface into perfect shape because the new arenas & their roof constructions in general are anything but perfect when it comes to lighting and stuff which is critical in that regard.
Besides that it's a bad joke that they even play in Manaus, there won't even be a 2nd division team in that city after the world cup, so basically they spent a shitload of money to build a stadium for 4(?) games...
All that being said, it's a joke that the stadium in SP isn't 100% done and several other stadiums are in similar shape. Especially if you take into account, that they build this one for the WC when there already was one of the most modern stadiums (Morumbi) in all of Brazil available. Even just updating/modernizing Morumbi probably would have been cheaper and needed less time.
Besides that it's a bad joke that they even play in Manaus, there won't even be a 2nd division team in that city after the world cup, so basically they spent a shitload of money to build a stadium for 4(?) games...
All that being said, it's a joke that the stadium in SP isn't 100% done and several other stadiums are in similar shape. Especially if you take into account, that they build this one for the WC when there already was one of the most modern stadiums (Morumbi) in all of Brazil available. Even just updating/modernizing Morumbi probably would have been cheaper and needed less time.
These foreign countries aren't capable of handling this type of event. When was the world cup attendance the greatest? When it was in USA and that is when USA just looks at it as a passing event. Throws a team together, beats up on Honduras, Panama, and Costa Rica by the impressive blowout score of 2-1.
