Blatter, who will run for re-election as head of FIFA on June 1, said the slow progress meant Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo could be left off the program for the 2013 Confederations Cup, the test event ahead of the World Cup a year later.
“The World Cup stadiums are still in the process of being discussed between the city mayors and the state governors,” he said, according to The Associated Press. "I must say that in comparison with the state of play between South Africa and Brazil three years before the World Cup, Brazil is behind South Africa. It's a fact.”
Referring to how little time remained before the World Cup, Blatter said: "It is tomorrow, but the Brazilians think it's just the day after tomorrow. What they shall do is to give a little bit more speed now in the organisation.”
