2014 World Cup to be played in twelve cities

The 2014 World Cup will take place in twelve different Brazilian towns. This was revealed by a spokesman of Brazil’s FA (CBF) in an interview with newspaper O Globo.

Initially it was expected that the tournament would make use of ten cities but another two have now been added. The names of those cities, and of five others, haven’t been revealed yet.

The five that are already certain of hosting games are Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte and capital city Brasilia.

World governing body FIFA has given its go-ahead for the adjustment, according to the spokesman. It is not the first time that the world’s most prestigious football tournament uses this amount of cities as Germany 2006 had its matches played in twelve different towns as well.

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is expected to make use of ten stadiums in nine cities. Johannesburg offers two venues.