Brazil 2014: "The Curitiba stadium is moving in the right direction" (Jerome Valcke, FIFA)

"The General Secretary of FIFA, Jerome Valcke, believes Curitiba is moving in the right direction," announced FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) on 04/02/3014, about the stadium in Curitiba, which must accommodate four of 64 matches of the 20^th Football World Cup, held from 12/06 to 07/13/2014 in Brazil.

"Curitiba stadium will be ready in late April. We do not have a plan B and we do not need a plan B," said Jérôme Valcke during SpoBis, a sports business forum in Düsseldorf (GER) on 05/02/2014.

Jérôme Valcke had mentioned a possible exclusion of the stadium during his inspection tour to Brazil on 21/01/2014. "We may have to organise matches without this stadium, it is an emergency," he stated, with less than 90% of the work underway.