FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke says South Africa isn't ready yet to host the World Cup, and he still doesn't know where all the teams will be based during the tournament. With barely three months until the event starts, organizers still face problems with Soccer City - the incomplete Johannesburg venue for the opening match and final - and filling stadiums. “If the question is ‘Could we host the World Cup tomorrow morning?' the answer is ‘no',” Valcke said Tuesday after a team workshop meeting in Sun City. “At this stage, we couldn't play the World Cup because Soccer City isn't ready. At this stage, we couldn't play the opening game. That's a fact. At this stage, we have 700,000 tickets still to sell, at this stage I can make a list of things that aren't ready for the World Cup. “We have 108 days - it seems short, it is short, but even if we have to stay awake all night, every day, we will be ready by the time of the World Cup.” Valcke's comments came after a feisty exchange with reporters about the state of several training camps. FIFA had wanted the list of training camps for the 32 finalists completed Tuesday, but those plans have been derailed by teams still changing their plans ahead of the June 11-July 11 event. Germany coach Joachim Loew is concerned about the training facilities at the team's base in Velmore hotel outside Pretoria and will visit there Wednesday. “We haven't seen major progress so far,” he said. England is ready to sign the contracts with the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus near Rustenburg, with coach Fabio Capello confident that the training pitches there will be improved in time for the finals. Capello led a high-level delegation featuring Valcke and top officials in African football which inspected the facility Monday. “We checked everything and it improved a lot from the last time we stayed here,” Capello said. “The pitches are good and will be better for June. The hotel is really, really nice and the medical center will be ready in two months. I'm really, really happy because it's the third time I've stayed here and the facilities are fantastic.” Valcke is also frustrated that England's Group C rival Algeria is yet to decide where it will be based. South Africa announced Sunday it had been forced to move from a base that was badly run down. No discounts FIFA has denied reports that it will cut World Cup ticket prices or give away free seats to ensure capacity stadiums at the finals in South Africa later this year. “There is no question of bringing down any prices,” Valcke told a news conference Tuesday in the wake of weekend media reports saying FIFA would reduce ticket prices to increase sluggish sales. However, FIFA will seek to increase the number of category-four seats, the specially-priced tickets for South African residents which sell at 140 rand ($18.21).
