FIFA likely won't be able to fully test World Cup stadium hosting opener in 2 weeks

Published February 05, 2015

FIFA may not be able to fully test the Sao Paulo stadium with a full crowd before the World Cup opener in two weeks.

Only 40,000 tickets are being sold for Sunday's Brazilian league match being played at the venue because sections of temporary seats recently installed have not been cleared by local authorities.

FIFA wanted the stadium tested at full capacity at least once before the nearly 70,000 people arrive for the opener between Brazil and Croatia on June 12.

The temporary seats also weren't used in the first official test event at the Itaquerao earlier this month.

FIFA made an exception to have a match played so close to the tournament opener because it was deemed necessary to properly evaluate the stadium.

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