Stadium Runtuh - Venue upacara pembukaan Piala Dunia Brazil

kazaraf · Post time 28-11-2013 05:54 PM

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Stadium Itaquerao di Sao Paulo, Brazil yang menjadi venue upacara pembukaan Piala Dunia 2014 runtuh pada Rabu menyaksikan 3 orang maut.

Insiden itu mungkin akan menyebabkan stadium Itaquerao tidak akan siap sedia pada tarikh yang ditetapkan oleh FIFA Disember ini sebagai salah satu venue perlawanan Piala Dunia.

Pembinaan yang hampir siap itu kini dihentikan serta merta. Video menyaksikan sebuah struktur besi 500 tan roboh dan jatuh ke atas tempat duduk penonton. Ia mengakibatkan kematian tiga pekerja sekaligus memaksa siasatan segera dilakukan.

Brazil kini kesuntukan masa untuk menyediakan 6 Stadium yang menjadi venue Piala Dunia sebelum Disember dan stadium Itaquerao adalah salah satu stadium yang hampir siap berbanding 5 stadium lain.

Undian akhir bagi menentukan saingan kumpulan Piala Dunia 2014 bakal berlangsung pada 6 Disember di Bahia.

Kejohanan bola sepak paling berprestij akan bermula pada 12 Jun hingga 13 Julai tahun depan.

solstice · Post time 28-11-2013 05:55 PM

Brazil darul Runtuh

kazaraf · Post time 28-11-2013 05:55 PM

SAO PAULO- A crane accident on Wednesday at the construction site of a future World Cup soccer stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, killed two people and injured at least one, causing what looked like serious damage to the structure.

“Awful scenes,” British soccer writer Jack Lang reported on Twitter from the scene.

“Crane was putting final truss of east stand into place. Tiny silver lining: accident occurred at lunch time so fewer workers in the vicinity.”

Lang quoted military police as saying the crane collapsed because the soil beneath it gave way.

His picture of it showed a twisted crane crumbled on top of stadium bleachers.

A spokesman for the São Paulo fire department confirmed the two deaths, both construction workers. A police spokeswoman had previously put the death toll at three.

Globo, a leading Brazilian newspaper, identified the two dead as a truck driver and crane operator.

Local media including Folha de S. Paulo newspaper said a crane was lifting a piece of roof into place when the accident occurred, sending the roof crashing down onto the side of the structure.

A spokesperson for Odebrecht SA, the company building the stadium, declined immediate comment.

The stadium, which was scheduled to be finished in the next month or so, is to be the site of the opening game when Brazil hosts the 2014 soccer World Cup in June and July.

It was not clear if the damage could pose a major delay to opening the stadium, according to Ricardo Trade, executive director of the local organizing committee for the World Cup.

“It’s impossible to make any forecasts at this moment,” Trade said. “What we know is what the images are showing, that part of the structure fell down.”

“At the same time, we can’t think that if (construction) is delayed by three months, the stadium will end up out of the World Cup.”

Arena Corinthians, one of the stadiums being built in Brazil for the 2014 World Cup, was due to open in December, a soccer stadium website said.

“The board of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista deeply regret the accident earlier in Corinthians Arena,” the soccer club said in a brief statement.

Its seating capacity of 48,000 would be augmented with 20,000 removable seats for the opening match of the World Cup. It is located about 17 kilometres from downtown Sao Paulo.

Building started in May 2011, and was 93 per cent completed on Nov. 13, Odebrecht reported.

The incident is a further blow to Brazil’s image and its preparations to host the 2014 tournament. Six stadiums were used in the Confederations Cup warm-up tournament in June, but several of them were delivered later than FIFA wanted.

Another six, including Corinthians, known locally as Itaquerão, are due to be delivered by the end of December but all indications are that at least two, in Manaus and Cuiabá, will not be ready on time. Even Itaquerão, which was due to be finished on schedule, will not begin to install 20,000 temporary seats until February.

The accident also casts further scrutiny on Brazil’s building standards. One worker was killed earlier this year while working on Palmeiras’ new stadium, also in São Paulo. Several people were injured when a fence collapsed just weeks after Gremio opened their brand new arena in the southern city of Porto Alegre in January.

And the Engenhão stadium built for the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro was forced to close in June after engineers said the roof was in danger of collapsing in high winds. The arena is due to be used as the Olympic stadium in 2016 and will be closed for 18 months for repairs.

The Corinthians stadium, on the gritty east side of Sao Paulo, was originally budgeted at $161 million Canadian but that shot up to over $458 million after local authorities decided to hold the prestigious opening match there.

Former Corinthians President Andres Sanchez said FIFA’s demands for more elevators, leather seats and extra space for sponsors were among the reasons for the massive increase.