Fifa World Cup Starts And Writes A New Chapter In The History Of Brazil

It is impossible to predict what will happen on the field from 17h (GMT) today when Neymar and Fred give attackers the first touches on the ball to start the World Cup 2014 in Itaquerão in São Paulo. Besides them, however, one thing is fact: the tournament has hit the mark major events in the history of the country.

The audience added all games should reach three billion people. Other three million accompany the matches in stadiums. 736 players will be involved; 170 000 men will be safety, private agents, policemen and members of the Armed Forces of Brazil.  Six billion dollars have been invested by the advertising market. The same six billion will be profited by FIFA. The Brazilian government has put in £ 8 billion effort to build or renovate the 12 arenas. Altogether, considering all the works and acquisitions made ​​by the Brazilian government and by state and local governments to host the World Cup, a dedicated public money is around £ 30 billion, a figure that includes investments that will be here after the World Cup, as reforms and airports and construction of urban mobility.

The World Cup is the biggest event that Brazil already received, surpassing the 1950 World Cup, Eco-92, the Pan American Games in 2007 and Rio +20 under various aspects. And threw open the eyes of the world, the riches, ills and contradictions of the seventh world economy.

The official discourse in the distant October 30, 2007, when it announced the headquarters of the World, presented in a national project that wanted to use the tournament as advertise their recent achievements, his new face and position on the planet.

In this sense, the World Cup would be the materialization of the Brazilian leadership in the modern world, a country that had stabilized its economy, consolidated its democracy, drawn millions of people facing poverty and mediator in international geopolitics. 

In 2009, when the world witnessed an economic crisis that has gripped most of the developed nations of the world, especially the countries of Europe and the United States, Brazil's position in the international context intensified.

Here, the crisis has not slowed domestic consumption does not cause a massive wave of unemployment or put at risk the social programs. Thus, the organization of the World Cup would crown the new Brazil.

Seven years after choosing the country to host the tournament, however, the high disapproval to the popular event, the rampant spending of public money, the demonstrations that take to the streets for over a year, delays and infrastructure projects that did not turn out paper are much closer to the national reality than the official propaganda intended portrait.