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You should remember that Brazil built (or rebuilt from scratch) all stadiums used on the world cup. Qatar would build them on less time and less money, I suppo

• mbreese 11y ago
  Brazil also has an Olympics coming up and a healthy national soccer league. I'm fairly certain they will be able to reuse a lot of those stadiums, so the benefit of that construction will extend for quite a while longer.
  • maskd 11y ago
    That has not happened, though: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/11/405955547/brazils-world-cup-legacy-includes-550m-stadium-turned-parking-lot http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/11/405955547/b... Besides the issues with building stadiums in states without a football tradition, Brazil is facing the problem that people just don't go to the stadium much. For example, the national league, which finished its third round last week, has had only 3 games with more than 20000 spectators so far. That was already a big problem before the World Cup, and only became bigger after it since the cost of maintaining the stadiums is much higher now, and so are ticket prices.
    • zimpenfish 11y ago
      > For example, the national league, which finished its third round last week, has had only 3 games with more than 20000 spectators so far. That's quite low - only the bottom two Premiership teams averaged less than that for 2014-15. But presumably it'll pick up over the season? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_home_attendances_in_non-European_club_football http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_home_attendances_in_non... implies there's at least 3 clubs averaging >20k a season recently.