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interested in exploring what might happen to these world class soccer stadiums after the games and victor matheson a sports economist and professor at the college of the holy cross studies the economic impact of mega sporting events now i first asked him how much brazil spent on the world cup and this is what he had to say some pretty interesting stuff and i think you'll find so yourself so that's actually a fairly hard question to answer all of the latest reports suggest that they spent somewhere between eleven and thirteen billion dollars overall they spent about four billion dollars on the stadiums alone although there have been reports of the final stadium numbers maybe as high as five or even six billion dollars but you know what you say overall that the social unrest wasn't what we were expecting going into the games. well i think there's a real reason for the taxpayers in brazil to be quite upset some of the spending for example of the stadium and mouse in the stadium in brasilia both of those are stadiums have cost hundreds of millions of dollars in fact the brazilian brazilian stadium is

interested in exploring what might happen to these world class soccer stadiums after the games and victor matheson a sports economist and professor at the college of the holy cross studies the economic impact of mega sporting events now i first asked him how much brazil spent on the world cup and this is what he had to say some pretty interesting stuff and i think you'll find so yourself. so we're having a little time before victor gets here but i was you can see one of the things that i thought was pretty fascinating that he had to say is that despite these mega stadiums what his publishing studies have found is that they really actually don't add any economic value to the surrounding area of the stadium but i'll let him tell that story and take it away. so that's actually a fairly hard question to answer all of the latest reports suggest that they spent somewhere between eleven and thirteen billion dollars overall and they spent about four billion dollars on stadiums alone although there have been reports of the final stadium numbers maybe as high as five or even six billion dollars but you know