ZURICH: The draw for the 2014 World Cup finals will be made on December 6 at the Brazilian holiday seaside resort of Costa do Sauipe it was announced by FIFA after a meeting here yesterday with the Brazilian organisers.
“It was confirmed at the meeting that the draw for the 2014 World Cup finals would take place at Costa do Sauipe, in Bahia State, at 1300 local time (1600GMT) on December 6 2013,” FIFA said in a statement yesterday.
After the meeting FIFA President Sepp Blatter had expressed his confidence Brazil would be ready in time to host the finals despite the continual delays in constructing the stadia and that the finals would be ‘formidable’.
After Brazil, Russia will stage the 2018 edition followed by the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 when the most popular sport on earth comes to the Middle East for the first time ever. REUTERS
