Football’s world governing body FIFA is confident Brazil can ensure security
during next year’s World Cup, its secretary general said Thursday.
“There is no additional demand on
the part of FIFA” in terms of security, Jerome Valcke told a Rio press
conference.
In the wake of massive street
protests in June as Brazil hosted the Confederations Cup, Valcke said
authorities “reacted well and gave us all, teams, trade partners, confidence in
their capacity to control these situations”.
The protests, which brought more
than one million people onto the streets of major cities, were against the high
cost of hosting the World Cup and also to demand better public services and an
end to endemic corruption.
During Valcke’s visit to Cuiaba,
capital of the central-western state of Mato Grosso, last week, some 50 people,
most of them public employees, held a protest.
“They have the right to protest and
we have the right to organize the World Cup,” the FIFA Secretary-General
commented.
(AFP)
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