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SCOTLAND HOPEFUL ON FLETCHER

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Scotland are hoping that Manchester United midfielder and their captain Darren Fletcher will be able to return to the Scotland national team by the start of the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifiers.

They will begin after the Euro 2012, which will be taking place in Ukraine and Poland. Even though there is quite a long time before the World Cup qualifiers actually begins, Scotland are certainly worried about the status of their star midfielder Darren Fletcher, who has been granted an extended and undefined break due to a rare illness.

Scotland begin their qualifying campaign for the FIFA World Cup 2014 in the September of 2012. It is still not clear whether Darren Fletcher will be able to return to the first-team action by then, although medical reports suggested that he could return after one year.

Scotland will be hoping to qualify for the biggest tournament in the world after they failed to do so for the previous 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, and won’t be part of the 2012 Euro Football betting because they lost out to France in the qualifiers.

Even though Darren Fletcher will certainly miss the friendly matches against Slovenia, there is every chance that he could return to the first qualifying match against Serbia, which is scheduled on September.

“He’s out for four months complete rest, and then we can reassess things. I’d be desperately hoping [to have him for the qualifiers]. He becomes such an important player for us, not just on the field, but as an example by the way he behaves himself on and off the park and his attitude,” Scotland manager Craig Levein was speaking to the media regarding the future of Darren Fletcher.

Fletcher is undoubtedly the star player at Scotland and his absence will seriously hurt their chances of making it into the prestigious tournament in South America. He is also sorely missed by his domestic club, and you can bet Manchester United are missing him right now, and hoping for a speedy comeback too.

ROMARIO UNCERTAIN ON STADIUMS

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Brazilian legend Romario has said that there is every chance that Brazil could not be ready for hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Brazil have been chosen as the 2014 FIFA World Cup hosts without any competition from the other South American countries.

As a result, there has been a notion that Brazil are not too concerned about the World Cup and that feeling slightly overconfident about their prospects of hosting the world’s most watched tournament. It has been only a few months ago that Brazil started full-fledged actions to complete the stadiums proposed for the World Cup. Aside from the stadiums, the biggest worry with Brazil is the ability to provide transport to all the fans arriving from all over the world.

Brazilian transportation is certainly not capable of handling the amount of volume that it will receive during the World Cup. It is something that has been stressed by a number of people concerned about the quality of the World Cup. Romario has been the latest player to criticise the slow actions by the Brazilian government towards organising everything for the 2014 World Cup. It is estimated that the 2014 World Cup will cost Brazil around $55 million, which is going to be extremely massive even for an economy that is growing as big as Brazil.

“I think that Brazil won’t be 100% ready. Of the 12 stadiums [that are to stage World Cup events] maybe 10 will be ready. As to work on public transportation, none of the cities involved will be able to complete it fully,” Romario told magazine Istoe. Even though his comments are expected to receive a number of criticisms from the government officials, Romario has said that Brazil need to work a lot faster in order to make the 2014 World Cup a memorable one.