The Morumbi soccer stadium in São Paulo (official name: Cicero Pompeu de Toledo) was officially excluded as a possible game site in the 2014 World Cup on June 16 by the Brazilian soccer governing body, the CBF.
There were two problems. Funding guarantees were not presented for stadium modernization and project blueprints were not delivered on time.
Minister of Sports, Orlando Silva, who is in South Africa at the 2010 World Cup, expressed surprise at the decision and called it “…unthinkable not to have games in São Paulo, the biggest city in the country.” He went on to say that the organizations involved would have to find a solution. “It is embarrassing to be here in Africa and have to admit that São Paulo does not have a stadium for games in the 2014 World Cup,” declared the minister.