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AFP, Rio de Janeiro
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Pop superstar Jennifer Lopez will perform at the World Cup opening ceremony after all, FIFA said Tuesday, two days after it announced "production issues' would prevent her travelling to Brazil.
Lopez, who recorded the official World Cup song, ’We Are One,’ with rapper Pitbull and Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte, will perform it with them and Brazilian drumming collective Olodum as originally planned at Thursday's kick-off, FlEAsaid.
"FIFA and the Local Organizing Committee are delighted to announce that we will have the full line-up of stars,’ it said in a statement.
"The performance by Pitbull, Claudia Leitte, Jennifer Lopez and Olodum will be the climax of the ceremony."
More than 60,000 people will be in Sao Paulo's Corinthians Arena to watch the ceremony and kick-off match between Brazil and Croatia. Around a billion people are expected to tune in on TV worldwide.
PUT YOUR SHIRT ON PORTUGAL
You can put your shirt on Portugal not running out of team jerseys this World Cup-all 1,000 ofthem.
With 20 outfield players in the 23-man squad, that averages out at a staggering 50 for each of them to sweat their way through in
'my Brazil.
They also like their cod, a national speciality, and have packed 200 kilos (440 pounds) of the stuff, the Portuguese FA
Also on the flight to Campinas will be 48 bottles of 10 years' old Tawny port - but not for the players.
PITCH TROUBLE FOR
ENGLAND, ITALY
The pitch at Manaus's Amazonia Arena, on which England and Italy will play their opening World Cup game on Saturday, was in a poor condition on Tuesday, an AFP journalist remarked.
The playing surface was noticeably dry and particularly bare around one of the goals, revealing large yellowing areas of turf.
The rest of the stadium appeared fully functional, but not completely finished.
In and around the changing rooms, naked power cables could be seen
dangling from the walls.
Outside the stadium, where workers were applying a final coat of asphalt, several security doors could be seen in their packaging, still waiting to be fitted.
INJURY-HIT CROATIA WAITING FOR FIFA CLEARANCE
Croatia are waiting on clearance from governing body FIFA to allow them to replace injured midfielder Ivan Mocinic with Milan Badelj, the national football federation said Wednesday on the eve of the World Cup finals opener with hosts Brazil.
Mocinic, 21, is the fourth player from the Croat squad to be forced to drop out because of injury but normally FIFA rules allow squads to replace injured players up to the eve of the kick-off of the touma-
Mocinic suffered a recurrence of an ankle injury and is expected to be sidelined for up to three weeks.
'We have to take into account the interest of the squad but also the interest of both Mocinic and his club and that is why we have to send him home" said coach Niko Kovac in a statement published on the Croatian football federation's (HNS) website.
CAR ACCIDENT KILLS SCOLARI'S NEPHEW
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari's nephew has died in a car accident, the second death to hit his family as he oversees the team's final preparations for the World Cup.
Scolari, who left Brazil's base camp to attend his brother-in-law's funeral last month, will not be able to leave his squad again so close to Thursday's opening match against Croatia, sources close to the coach told AFP.
His nephew, 48-year-old Tarcisio Joao Schneider, died in a head-on collision with a truck after crossing into the oncoming lane while driving in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The truck driver was not injured. Schneider was Scolari's sister's son. The coach's other sister lost her husband on May 27.
On that occasion Scolari left Brazil's training camp in Teresopolis, outside Rio de Janeiro, to attend the funeral, which was also in Rio Grande do Sul, Scolari's home state.