2014 World Cup Announcement In November

In 2003 FIFA made the announcement that the 2014 World Cup would be hosted in South America - it would be the first time it would be hosted in the continent since Argentina in 1978.

As far as we're aware on Brazil have submitted their bids before the April 18th deadline as Colombia have pulled out of the bidding process.

However, Sepp Blatter has said that if no bid matches their quality guidelines they'll consider other bids. In September 2006 the President of Brazil acknowledged that they may have problems and that they may have to build 12 new stadia.