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Meeting after latest World Cup delays
World Cup FIFA Visit Heal
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff kicks a soccer ball during the inauguration of the Arena das Dunas soccer stadium in Natal, Brazil, Wednesday. - photo by Associated Press
ZURICH — The presidents of Brazil and FIFA expressed their faith in organizing a successful World Cup, amid missed construction deadlines and warnings about dropping one host city. "We are ready. We will be staging the cup of all cups," Brazil President Dilma Rousseff said through a translator at FIFA headquarters on Thursday.