Three months before the first ball is kicked in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Brazil is already anticipating the economic benefits of hosting the 2014 finals.
The initial prediction from Brazil’s Ministry of Sport is that around 600 thousand foreign football fans will visit Brazil during the 2014 finals, which will take place in twelve cities: Curitiba and Porto Alegre in the south; Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in the south-east; Cuiabá and Brasília in central Brazil; Manaus in the north; and Fortaleza, Natal, Recife
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