"We don't need to build any stadiums. We have new stadiums that are huge, that are prepared to host the World Cup," Osvaldo Arruda, Brazilian 2006 World Cup Bid executive director, told a news conference in Malaysia's capital.
"Brazil has everything to offer because of the passion of the Brazilian people for football and we have all the organisation capacity," he said.
"The Brazilian people believe that they deserve to host the 2006 World Cup."
Brazil is competing against England, Germany, Morocco and South Africa for the right to host the tournament.
World body FIFA will make their decision in Zurich on July 6 and delegations from Brazil and England were in Malaysia seeking to win support from members of the Kuala Lumpur-based Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
There are four Asian members on the FIFA executive committee that will choose the winner.
Four-time World Cup winners Brazil, who last hosted the tournament in 1950, said it was fully prepared to host the event, with all the required facilities and government backing well in place.
Arruda said Brazil had invested $50 million to improve the country's telecommunications services and $6 billion to build new hotels, theme parks and other infrastructure.
England, who won the World Cup on the only time it hosted the tournament in 1966, held a separate news conference calling for soccer to return to its roots.
England said its bid was set apart by two key features - a plan to bring 12 children each from 203 countries to England during the World Cup and a new Wembley stadium which has yet to be built.
"The basis of our bid has been the future. We could do the best job for the world of football," said Sir Bobby Charlton.
Tony Banks, Prime Minister Tony Blair's special envoy for the England bid, brushed aside talk that England's chances may be hit by fear of hooliganism. "We are satisfied that we have done everything that we need to do," he said.
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