Blatter blasts Brazil’s brutal World Cup preparations

Sepp Blatter can hardly believe how far behind schedule Brazil is for this summer’s World Cup, blasting the nation in a Swiss interview.

“Brazil has just realized what it means to organize a World Cup,” Blatter said in an interview with Swiss newspaper 24 Heures. “They started a lot too late. It is the country which is the furthest behind since I’ve been at FIFA and moreover, it’s the only one that had so much time — seven years — to prepare itself.”

There have been massive stadium delays and construction catastrophes featuring not just one, but multiple fatalities, as only six of the 12 stadiums on deadline to be completed by New Year’s Eve are done. The seventh was ceremoniously “delivered” at the deadline, but still isn’t ready (which truly begs the gall it takes to make such a statement).

Aldo Rebelo is Brazil’s sports minister and said there are no worries about the stadiums being ready for the tournament, and Blatter claims optimism over the entire ordeal. Yet the fact that he raises his voice publicly says something about how things are going for the South American tournament. With worker protests and plenty of tumult south of the Equator, it certainly hasn’t been a run of infrastructure brilliance.

Then, there’s this:

Jerome Valcke, the top FIFA official in charge of the World Cup, said recently that the tournament would have “the highest level of security you can imagine.”

So we can expect half-eagle, half-dragons with laser vision.

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