Construction Of Sao Paulo's $400 Million Soccer Stadium Might Be Halted 14 Months Before The World Cup

The Itaquerao has it stands right now

The stadium sits 10 miles from downtown Sao Paolo

Source: Reuters

It cost $400 million to build, but the public financing loan has not been delivered yet, according to the builders

Source: Reuters

Five seats have been put in

Source: Reuters

The roof still isn't built

Source: Reuters

The Itaquerao will be a gleaming new stadium, but that's not the case for many other Brazilian World Cup Venues...

Source: Reuters

Many of the venues are renovation projects of pre-existing stadiums

The legendary Maracana in Rio de Janeiro got the biggest face lift

It'll take $440 million to renovate

Source: The Atlantic

The stadium in 2011

It was in disuse. But it will be ready for this summer's Confederations Cup

The National Stadium in Brasilia also got renovated

It will be the second-largest stadium in Brazil

It's 87% complete right now

The same cannot be said for the Itaquerao, which may be in danger of embarrassingly missing out on the World Cup entirely

More stadium trouble

The Abandoned Venues Of The 2004 Athens Olympics >