Brazil 2014: 100 days to go, "It will be a very, very good competition" (Joseph Blatter, FIFA)

"I would say to the Brazilian people, now, get up for football, embrace this great event, live football. It will be a very, very good competition and I'm sure that the Brazilian population will get behind their team," said Joseph Blatter, president of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) on the "100 days to go" celebration of the World Cup in Brazil on 04/03/2014.

"Mobilise yourselves for football!" joked Joseph Blatter to Brazilian people in a video message.

On the 12/06/2014 (day of the opening match, Brazil-Croatia), there will be a large lighthouse, fireworks if you want, and a dove of peace to start the World Cup in Brazil," added the president of FIFA.

• "If we say that football has been organised, maybe invented, but certainly organised by the British... I have to say that the country where the skill of football has been inaugurated, it is Brazil. The Brazilian spirit of the game, the Brazilian ability to play football makes this World Cup very special.
• Football is part of the philosophy of life in Brazil.
• Also, because the last World Cup in Brazil was…