LONDON (Reuters) - Brazil will not be the finished article when it hosts the 2014 World Cup but the vast Latin American country will cope with hundreds of thousands of visitors to the tournament, its sports minister said on Tuesday.
In London for the Olympics, minister Aldo Rebelo said he was talking to sponsors and local organisers to ensure that Brazil's poor and indigenous people were not locked out of the World Cup in a country that has won the tournament a record five times.
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