The Pitch Preparation Seminar for the 2014 FIFA World Cup was held in Fortaleza, Ceara State. Attending the seminar were the pitch specialists from the 12 host cities. The main agenda of the seminar is to create the new guidelines for the pitch that will be implemented in all of the stadiums that will be hosting matches during the World Cup 2014. The first day of the seminar was attended by ...

Liberty Seguros, a Brazilian insurance company was announced as the latest addition to the pool of National Supporters of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The signing ceremony was attended by the President of the Local organizing Committee Ricardo Teixeira and FIFA Marketing Director Thierry Weil. The CEO of Liberty Seguros, Luis Maurette was excited with the deal and even described it as "too good to miss". “We firmly believe that this ...

CONCACAF will have a play-off for the North, Central America and Caribbean Zone. The play-off games will begin in June 2011. The play-offs will be done so that the number of teams that will be included in the Preliminary Draw for the FIFA World Cup 2014 will be reduced. According to March's FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, the region's ten lowest ranking teams will be paired against each other thus producing a series ...

Football fans around the world are already excited about the World Cup finals even if the games that are played are still qualifiers. To support the world Cup, sponsors are already pouring in and the latest to join in the sponsor lineup is the Brazilian brand Nescau. Becoming the fourth Brazil-based company to sign up as sponsor for the World Cup, Nescau is in league with national supporters Marfrig, Oi ...

The much awaited Preliminary Draw will be held this coming July 30, 2011. It will be held at the beautiful Marina da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro. The Marina da Gloria is a very stunning venue for the first official event of the 2014 FIFA World Cup which is the very much awaited Preliminary Draw. The harbor area offers 9,000 square meters of floor space that is very much capable of hosting ...

The Asian teams have their winning fire re-kindled by the drawing of slots for the two Asian preliminary elimination rounds. The 16 lowest ranking teams will face off each other in Round 1 with the eight winners moving on to Round 2 to face the remaining 22 teams. The top five teams of the Asian confederation will automatically enter Round 3. Round 1 will give the lesser known teams to shine ...

The Asian Zone preliminary round draw for Brazil 2014 was held last March 30, 2011 at the Asian Football Confederation headquarters. The teams for the first round and second round qualifiers was drawn. Round 1 consisted of the 16 lowest ranking teams who will be playing in a home-and-away series. Winners will go on to play in the ties on June 29 and July 3, 2011. The eight winners will progress ...

Asian countries will play ahead of the Preliminary Draw in their race to the FIFA World Cup 2014. The Preliminary Draw is set on July 30, 2011 but Asian teams will be playing the preliminary rounds of matches ahead because there are so many participating countries this time. The draw for this preliminary round will be on March 30, 2011 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. The first round of ...

The second day of March 2011 saw the start of the FIFA/Local Organizing Committee management Board meetings at the FIFA office in Zurich. Their main agenda is the 2014 FIFA World Cup which will be hosted by "football country" Brazil. The meeting was graced with the members of the board who are representatives of the senior management of FIFA and the LOcal Organizing Committee. The Local organizing Committee is led ...

Japan's Alberto Zaccheroni eyes Brazil 2014 triumph for the Japanese football team. The former AC Milan coach said that, "This is nothing but a starting point for us. I want to help Japanese football grow like every industry in Japan keeps on growing. And I want to help Japan qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and fight for the top spot there." The Japanese team won against Jordan at ...