{"id":9409,"date":"2012-03-29T03:36:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-soccer-fifa-puts-executive-board-on-world-cup-organising-body\/"},"modified":"2012-03-29T03:36:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:36:55","slug":"update-1-soccer-fifa-puts-executive-board-on-world-cup-organising-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-soccer-fifa-puts-executive-board-on-world-cup-organising-body\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Soccer-FIFA puts executive board on World Cup organising body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds background)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 28<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; FIFA is putting its entire executive<br \/>\ncommittee on the organising body of the World Cup after fears<br \/>\nabout the progress of preparations for Brazil in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To underline the significance of the FIFA World Cup for<br \/>\nworld football&#8217;s governing body, the complete FIFA Executive<br \/>\nCommittee is now, for the first time, part of this<br \/>\ndecision-making forum which is responsible for monitoring and<br \/>\norganising each edition of FIFA&#8217;s flagship event,&#8221; the body said<br \/>\non Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>FIFA said Danny Jordaan, chief executive of South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\norganising committee for the 2010 World Cup, and Alexei Sorokin,<br \/>\nhead of the Russian 2018 organising committee, would also be<br \/>\ninvolved.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Preparations for the tournament in Brazil have been dogged<br \/>\nby delays in the building of stadiums and other infrastructure<br \/>\nsuch as airports, local transport connections and hotels.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those worries have been increased by plans to have teams<br \/>\ntravelling to different parts of the vast country for their<br \/>\ngroup matches rather than staying in the same venue.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>FIFA has also become exasperated at delays over a so-called<br \/>\nWorld Cup bill which would temporarily over-ride local laws<br \/>\nwhich ban the sale of alcohol in stadiums and guarantee<br \/>\ndiscounted tickets for students and old-age pensioners.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>FIFA confirmed that secretary-general Jerome Valcke, who<br \/>\ninfuriated Brazilians by saying local organisers needed &#8220;a kick<br \/>\nup the backside&#8221;, had taken part in a meeting of the organising<br \/>\ncommittee in Zurich on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jerome Valcke attended the meeting as the person in charge<br \/>\nof the FIFA World Cup organisation at FIFA,&#8221; said soccer&#8217;s<br \/>\ngoverning body in a separate statement.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds background) March 28 (Reuters) &#8211; FIFA is putting its entire executive committee on the organising body of the World Cup after fears about the progress of preparations for Brazil in 2014. &#8220;To underline the significance of the FIFA World Cup for world football&#8217;s governing body, the complete FIFA Executive Committee is now, for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}