Brazil regards airports as key challenge

Organizing committee boss still confident about World Cup success

Brazil faces a major challenge in modernizing its airports ahead of next year's World Cup and will make available both civilian and military airfields for the teams, a government official said.

"The big problem" for the tournament is "the quality of airports", Luis Fernandes, the government representative on the World Cup's Local Organizing Committee said in an interview with foreign correspondents in the northeastern city of Recife on Sunday.