Posted by Tim VickeryBrazil 2014 will have 12 host cities after all. On Tuesday, FIFA announced that the southern city of Curitiba will not be removed from the tournament and that the four group games scheduled for the city's Arena da Baixada stadium will be go ahead as planned.
Though some had suggested that the decision would go the other way, it always looked unlikely. For a start, it would have been a tremendous embarrassment for the Brazilian government, which had pushed hard for 12 host cities -- indeed, as FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke made clear, the action of the federal government had been fundamental in saving Curitiba from the consequences of its own delays.
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