FIFA bans high-altitude international matches

[geysir]

I suppose so, the article by Vickery that Neil posted is good but very subjective. I see Brazil lost that game but I'm pretty sure about them dropping in some hours before the game.
Basically it's a South American situation so their Federation should sort something out that's fair. I don't know, but I'd assume that they were still squabbling over some venues selected for extra altitude effect and FIFA stuck the boot in, maybe they couldn't mediate and just legislated
Personally I could adjust to high altitude after some time but never in a month of Sundays adjust to a humid 40C

[John83]

...I don't know, but I'd assume that they were still squabbling over some venues selected for extra altitude effect and FIFA stuck the boot in, maybe they couldn't mediate and just legislated...

One of the smaller, higher nations switched their home games against Brazil to the highest stadium they could find in revenge for Brazil being a whiny bitch about altitude. Ironically, they were able to do this because Brazil got the rule limiting a team to 2 home venues repealed because they wanted to move some games to avoid their very critical home crowd.

[DmanDmythDledge]

FIFA have backed down slightly and increased the allowed altitude to 3,000 ft. Bolivia still can't play in La Paz and Peru can't play in Cuzco. Colombia and Ecuador can continue to play in their current home grounds.

[pineapple stu]

3000m, not 3000ft. 10000ft.

[superfrank]

I noticed an interesting piece on this in Tim Vickery's BBC coulmn down towards the bottom.

It was nice to see him highlight the great contradictions of the Brazilian FA.