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I have decided to write my paper on the world cup and its influence to its host country along with the rest of the world. The world cup takes place every four years and is a soccer tournament that last for about a month from late spring to early summer. The teams competing in the world cup are countries national teams, and only 32 qualify to play in the world cup. This year the World cup is taking place in Brazil.

There has been a lot of controversy recently about the World cup in Brazil which is what inspired me to pursue this topic. Every four years a different country host the world cup and they are elected to host by a board of committees. Brazil campaigned to host the world cup by saying they would use all the money provided to host the world cup and generated by the world cup to help improve the project areas around where the stadiums would be located. However, up to now Brazil has failed to follow through, spending most of the public money on the new high-tech stadiums, which were supposed to be privately funded. Also, 13 out of 50 plans to fix and update ports public transportation and the famous favelas has been cancelled. Causing more controversy is the fact that an estimated 170,000 brazilians, the majority of which belonging to the lower social classes have been evicted and displaced from there home in order to build the stadiums to host the world cup. These citizens were evicted with little to no notice and without concrete ideas of where to be relocated to. The country originally hosted the world cup to benefit the public, however what has been going on in brazil couldn't be further from that. Not only has this poor class been evicted from home but now they may miss out on viewing the games in which their country is so passionate about. World cup ticket prices this year are significantly higher the what they were four years ago in south africa. This price increase will prevent the people who were supposed to benefit from this world cup and the people who's homes were destroyed to host the cup, from watching the games. Some might say they can go watch the games at a bar or at home. This is untrue for many of these people cannot afford televisions and bars in brazil can not play world cup matches unless the serve and are sponsored by the official beer of the Fifa world cup.

With all these problems many may say the Brazil World cup is a failure, however these people fail to look deeper in to the country and the game. For many especially those in brazil soccer is more than a game it is a way of life. Neymar a Brazilian soccer star is like a good to many little kids growing up in the favelas of brazil. Soccer provides these people a way to escape from the struggles and difficulties of daily life to unite and support their country. While up to this point Fifa and Brazil may not have been as responsible as they should have, the true passion and love for the game that the people of Brazil have is what will in the end make the 2014 world cup in Brazil a success.