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Blatter orders Brazil to speed up

"I would like to tell my Brazilian colleagues about the 2014 World Cup, it's tomorrow, the Brazilians think it's just the day after tomorrow," he told reporters.

"We are hoping for a little good faith, things are not advancing very quickly."

Brazil's Sports minister Orlando Silva replied by inviting Blatter to the South American country to see the work going on for himself.

"I'm convinced he'll be reassured that Brazil will stage a very good World Cup," Silva told a news conference in Sao Paulo.

"We have 10 of the 12 stadiums with work going full steam ahead, we're confident the majority of the stadiums will be handed to FIFA within the deadline agreed with them."

Blatter on Monday compared Brazil's preparations unfavourably with 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa's at the same stage four years ago.

"If Brazil keeps going like this there will not be matches in Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo at the Confederations Cup," he said.

Blatter added that because of discussions between Brazilian politicians, it was not clear where this year's draw for the qualifying competition - originally scheduled to take place in Rio de Janeiro in July - would be held.

"I will present something very special there (at FIFA Congress in June) but I will not now disclose the contents - it is to fight corruption, all cheating and discrimination," he said.

"It would be like Switzerland asking France or Germany or Italy to vote for them when they elect the federal council," he said.

"Age is not a question of a number of years, it's a question of what you are able to do," he said. "It is the FIFA Congress which will decide whether I am too old or not."