Valcke told the inaugural Inside World Football Forum in Moscow: “There is a lot of work to deliver.

“We don’t have stadiums, we don’t have airports, we don’t have a national transportation system in place and we are one month away from the preliminary draw.”

He added: “The Maracana is definitely not currently a World Cup stadium and that’s why it’s closed. It will be ready at the last minute, a few months maybe, even a few weeks before the tournament if they don’t speed up the process.

“In Sao Paulo, the main city in Brazil, they will not even be able to play the Confederations Cup in 2013 because the stadium will not be ready.”

Valcke suggested the main aim in Brazil was to win the World Cup rather than organise a successful tournament.

“In South Africa the main goal was to show the world that Africa could organise a World Cup,” said Valcke

“In Brazil, in a way the main issue is to win it. Otherwise they will talk about failure.”

Valcke, however, refused to comment on the bribery scandal that has engulfed FIFA.

He said: “I’m here to talk about football. Sometimes at FIFA we need this.”

FIFA president Sepp Blatter, meanwhile, has expressed his unhappiness at events in the CONCACAF federation that has been at the centre of the bribery scandal.

Jack Warner resigned as president of the confederation earlier this week and FIFA dropped their investigation into allegations he was “an accessory to corruption” following payments of 40,000 dollars made to the Caribbean associations last month.

He and fellow FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam had been provisionally suspended pending the FIFA ethics committee inquiry.

Blatter told ESPN: “I am very unhappy with what has happened here in this region, in the CONCACAF.

“We have now the instruments in FIFA, here we are again in another case, it has not yet been settled, it is still pending.

“One of the suspended people from the CONCACAF, he has withdrawn from all activities, so he is not any longer under the jurisdiction of FIFA but the case itself is not finished so let the ethics committee make their job finally and I’m sure in the next 20 days this case will definitely be assessed and the decisions will be taken.”

Blatter also defended the decision not to look further into the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid following claims in Parliament they had paid bribes to two FIFA members.

He added: “When there is some evidence somewhere then the ethics committee will come in but for the time being all that has been disclosed by the special Parliamentary committee in Great Britain or by the Sunday Times, no evidences have been there.

“We asked for evidence and nobody was able to give something, so we are not going into matters where there is nothing to do.”