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Security for the World Cup games

Our Director of Security for the World Cup games has these qualifications:

• Juan Gonzalez was assigned to the Inter American Military Organization Conference of the American Armies (CAA) for two years-Brasilia, Brazil

• Former Vice Director of the CAA-Brasilia

• Served under Director of CAA who was assigned the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations

• Professional Fluency in Portuguese, Spanish and English

Juan Gonzalez has an extensive network of Security Professionals and local nationals with the lay of the land expertise to get the job done.

Zurich. World Cup teams and supporters face a marathon of traveling after organizers decided countries must play their group games in different venues around Brazil at the 2014 World Cup.

Sao Paulo will host the opening match of the 2014 World Cup and Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracana Stadium will stage the final, FIFA announced on Thursday.

The host nation will kick off the tournament on June 12 at a 65,000-seat arena being built in the Itaquera neighborhood. The decision ended months of speculation over whether Brazil’s biggest city would host the match following concerns over construction delays at the stadium.

Maracana Stadium will stage the final on July 13, as well as six other matches.

Five-time champion Brazil can only play in its most famous stadium — built for the 1950 tournament — if it reaches the final.

Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte will stage the semifinals and the capital, Brasilia, will get the third-place playoff. The match schedule was announced at a brief, televised ceremony at the Zurich headquarters of world governing body FIFA on Thursday.

FIFA broke with tradition by announcing four match slots, including a 10 p.m. kickoff, on the first Saturday of the 32-team group phase. All other group matches will start at three-hourly intervals between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Matches in the knockout rounds will kick off no later than 5 p.m.

The surprise was that organizers decided against basing teams in single venues, which means some will have to travel thousands of kilometers between matches in one of the world’s biggest countries.

It had been expected teams would play their group matches in two venues at most to cut down traveling in a country overdependant on air transportation that is limited and unreliable.

“The teams will travel around the country so that not just the biggest cities get the best teams,” said Ricardo Teixeira, president of the local organizing committee and Brazilian FA.

The team eventually drawn as number two in Group A will have to play in Sao Paulo in the southeast, then travel to Manaus, a three and a half hour flight away, and finally Recife.

Flights between Manaus and Recife nearly always involve a connection, taking a total of six to nine hours. The road journey is 5,700 kilometers long according to Brazil’s transportation department.

The team drawn as number four in Group D might have to contend with playing its first game in Cuiaba, where temperatures in June can top 30 degrees Celsius, and its second in Porto Alegre, where temperatures can drop to near freezing.

“It’s a big task and a long job,” said FIFA’s secretary general, Jerome Valcke. “We had 57 versions of the match schedule. We took into account medical factors, logistics, travel and accommodation.”

Many other teams face at least one long flight in their schedules while fans may struggle to get on a plane at all due to limited seats.

Brazilian authorities have already admitted the country’s outdated airports are the biggest worry facing the tournament.

Reuters, AP