![]() Others are only partially completed or have been put on ice until after the World Cup. Some projects, such as a bullet train between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, never left the drawing board. Poor organization caused huge delays in some of the key World Cup investment projects and workers in a dozen host cities are racing against the clock to have stadiums, airport terminals and access roads ready on time. It’s like people don’t have the enthusiasm they had in other years, especially for a country that has football in its soul,” said Cecilia Salazar, a 64-year-old shopkeeper from Argentina who was in Sao Paulo with her husband and has tickets to see their national team play in Porto Alegre. Otherwise the atmosphere is flat in Sao Paulo, the country’s buttoned-down business center, which hosts the opening match between Brazil and Croatia on Thursday.Īn expected explosion of Brazil’s green and yellow has been slow to materialize and graffiti attacking FIFA and Brazilian politicians highlights the anger over poor public services. The most festive visitors have resorted to making their own fun, carrying their national flags around the city, drinking in the streets and singing together as amused locals look on. “We just want to have some fun and we are trying hard to find it.” “It’s very hard to find things that are for us, the fans,” said Vedran Lesic, part of a group of Croatian fans decked out in their national team’s red and white as they walked through Sao Paulo on Wednesday.
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