Consumer protection organization will launch a website with consumer rights and useful phone numbers before the beginning of the World Cup matches. The portal will also have a channel for tourists’ complaints.
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Eleven kiosks which will offer licensed items are ready to operate at malls and bus stations. By May 20th, there should be 30 of them.
FIFA launches in March a fund to finance social, education and health projects in Brazil. The sum may be even higher with donations from other institutions.
Two cooperatives have developed collections inspired in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and in soccer matches to be sold in Porto Alegre, one of the 2014 FIFA World Cup host cities.
English organisation ‘Bidna Capoeira’ takes the Brazilian sport to children and youths aged 7 to 22 in the West Bank, Eastern Jerusalem and Syria. Since 2007, over 15,000 people have participated.
Residents in the country received 625,000 tickets to matches. The remaining tickets were sold to supporters from another 188 countries, mainly the United States, England and Germany.
A five-year agreement signed between São Paulo Football Club and OCP S.A. from Morocco will organized the travel of youths aged 14 to 17 to practice with the Brazilian team’s youth players.
Tickets for the FIFA Club World Cup can be purchased online. From November on, they will be sold at the stadiums’ box offices as well.
The Brazilian minister of Sports said that of the 12 host cities in Brazil, only six haven’t finished construction work and stadium improvements. All, however, are at advanced stages.
The Brazilian Lebos Chaguri should dispute the Formula 1 H2O Nations speedboat championship, in Doha and Abu Dhabi. Son of a Lebanese father, he will be on the Lebanese team.
Fifa has received 4.5 million orders for tickets for the World Cup, of which 1.1 million came from buyers abroad. The orders came mostly from Argentina and the United States.
Adolescents from the two Arab countries will participate in the Gymnasiade, a global school contest due in Brasília from November 27th to December 4th. Over 30 countries will be represented.
Soccer federations from the two countries convened at the Fifa headquarters in Switzerland to discuss ways to facilitate the transit of players, coaches, and equipment in the occupied territories.
A project developed by Biotechnos will implement 40 productive arrangements in the host cities of the contest, which will be held in Brazil. The delegations’ buses will run on the fuel.
