WorldCupJoe
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British media are a joke every once in a while... And thinking that the Gremio Arena is one the venues for 2014 is just plain stupid. What was the writer of that piece thinking: "Oh, i see a big stadium in Brazil. Must be one of the venues for 2014 then". ?
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I have to admit that, as a european, i didn't knew almost half of the host-cities prior to reading and writing about the world cup. Cuiaba, Curitiba, Natal.. never heard of before. That's the good thing about a world cup: getting to know new places and stuff...
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I'm not worrying about Manaus and Natal. They have their deadline in December 2013 (if i'm not mistaken). So that gives them some 8-9 months to go.. They may be a little behind schedule right now, but that seems to be normal these days.
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It will be amazing events
Everytime i see your signature Dannyel i remember that Brazil will also host the Olympics
I keep forgetting. So much to do in Brazil the next couple of years. Are they planning to host the start of the Tour de France too anytime soon ? -
The Confederations- and World Cup teams are so lucky to be able to play in stadiums like these... Lucky bastards!
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The grass of Maracanã began to be installed
So they drained the stadium pretty quick. Looked very different last thursday..
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Whohoo! 3 out of 12 stadiums completed. Congrats to Salvador. Are they going to build the temporary stand in the empty space for the confederations cup too, or just for the world cup?
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Time to follow this project more closely. Interesting. They will finish it on time, no doubt about it. But they really have to speed up. Always nice to have a little drama during the build-up to a tournament.
Good thing they've prevented a third strike (or fourth or fifth, how much is it?)
Time to rewrite and add some things do this article:
http://www.worldcupofjoe.com/1/post/2013/01/the-maracan-way.html
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Thanks for the updates! Salvador is becoming my favorite more and more. Great stadium with a cool roof structure and the color of the seats makes it look really fresh.
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I liked it!!! It's a bit "Unilever-logo" style, but it got really nice.
That is exactly what i thought. But it's stylish and well done
The city posters are very different tough, don't know if i like it. They don't have the same style, some are abstract, some are expressionistic, impressionistic etc etc. Not one particular style, makes it a bit messy. But it's hard to pick a favorite. I think i'm going with Porto Alegre's.
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Thanks for the updates Bezzi. What is the point of the open space in Salvador by the way?
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Never knew that the teams have so much influence and that they kept the stadium open because the teams wanted to. Why didn't the FIFA put pressure on the teams to play somewhere else?
"They underestimated the ammount of work that needed to be done". - Which also includes the fact that they didn't know about the bad condition of the roof in the first place.
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I saw this article on the Prensa Latina New Agency:
........"According to Emop (Municipal Public Works Company), two workers' strikes, one in August and the other in September, 2001, affected the renovation plan.".
A third shift, working at night, was established in July to speed up the project, but delays continued and investment costs skyrocketed....
Are the strikes the only reason for the delay? and when they introduced a third shift, working during the night, how come the delay and investment cost continued to build up? I know labour is expensive but still...
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Maracana will be ready only 18 days before the competition. What bunch of son of a bitches...
US$ 750mn and so delayed...
That's not a good. But on the other hand
SAL |..................87%..|BRA |.................84%...|RIO |................80%....|REC |...............77%.....|Salvador and Brasilia are on schedule (right
) and Recife put the pedal to the metal too. 18 days before kick-off is late, but no too late.But is does show bad planning and i hope that that is just restricted to the Maracanã and not to other stadiums and/or infrastructure (although i think isn't)
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The conclusion of the Arena Fonte Nova was scheduled for December 2012 but due of FIFA requirements, according to the consortium responsible for the works, the deadline was postponed. Now, the reopening is scheduled for Feb. 28.
(google translate)
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Thanks for the info. That's nicely on time for the Confederations Cup. Are the other three Confederations Cup stadiums also on schedule or are there problems with some?
With the other three i mean the three stadiums that aren't finished yet. So Brasilia, Recife and Rio.
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When is Salvador gonna be ready?
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You have a point there, new stadiums are always cheaper than renovating old ones. But could it be that brazil wants to showcase its football history? And that that is the reason for renovating the old stadiums? It costs a lot more, but if it's tradition and history what they went for, they did a good job.
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I think the FIFA went for character, tradition and history, stadium wise. I think they prefer to use renovated, old stadiums with history, instead of staging games at entirely new stadiums. At least they have back-up options like Gremio Arena and the new Palmeiras stadium
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Whether the Castelao and Mineirao are not entirely completed, there are another 18 months to go until the world so the overal progress looks promising
Stadium progress
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It's the new roof dimensions that make is more enclosed and compact. The old roof didn't extend so far, only covered the upper parts of the
second tier. And the stands have a more shallow angle than modern stadiums, i think that's what you mean with taller. Makes it look like it has been flattened by pressure from above.
Is it me or do other people also see a resemblance with american college football stadiums like michigan stadium and the rose bowl? Maracana also has this shallow bowl architecture.