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Johannesburg - Brazil is taking security lessons from South Africa as it prepares to host the next World Cup in 2014, the Brazilian organising committee said on Thursday.
Brazil had sent a security group to South Africa for a few days to "analyse the situation and pick the issues that need to be sorted", said organising committee chairperson Ricardo Texeira.
"We do have a security problem in Brazil..., but Brazil has organised major events and they have seen no issues," Texeira said via a translator at a media briefing at Soccer City.
'Negative into positive'
Former Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Perreira, who is also a former coach of the Brazil team, said Brazil should take lessons from South Africa and make all the "negative into positive".
"Obviously people were sceptical [about the World Cup in South Africa], but for seven years people worked very hard... to make this the success that it is," Perreira said, also via a translator.
"South Africa did very well in terms of using their resources, it has been very successful," he said.
Texeira said FIFA generally reviewed its operations after a World Cup to correct any problems in the next tournament. This would be done after the South African World Cup to improve on the Brazilian tournament, he said.
Brazil had sent a security group to South Africa for a few days to "analyse the situation and pick the issues that need to be sorted", said organising committee chairperson Ricardo Texeira.
"We do have a security problem in Brazil..., but Brazil has organised major events and they have seen no issues," Texeira said via a translator at a media briefing at Soccer City.
'Negative into positive'
Former Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Perreira, who is also a former coach of the Brazil team, said Brazil should take lessons from South Africa and make all the "negative into positive".
"Obviously people were sceptical [about the World Cup in South Africa], but for seven years people worked very hard... to make this the success that it is," Perreira said, also via a translator.
"South Africa did very well in terms of using their resources, it has been very successful," he said.
Texeira said FIFA generally reviewed its operations after a World Cup to correct any problems in the next tournament. This would be done after the South African World Cup to improve on the Brazilian tournament, he said.
