Yes, 330 days for AA redemptions.

The schedule for the world cup already has been released. http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/ne...755/index.html At the present time, it's just the times, venues, and which team from which groups will play. Since Brazil will be the number 1 team in the A group, their games are already known, although their opponent is not. Teams are not reseeded in each round, so it's already possible to know every venue where Brazil might play until the end of the tournament.

Tickets will go on sale well before the draw is made placing teams into the bracket. In fact, tickets will go on sale well before the 31 other participants have even qualified. To give a sense, tickets for World Cup 2010 went on sale in February 2009. The draw for the brackets was not until December 2009. Tickets are sold in multiple stages and there are many different kinds of tickets. For example, you can buy a ticket that gives you admission to one team's three group matches. You pay according to a price category (there are four categories, corresponding to where in the stadium your ticket will be). You won't know until around the end of the year where and when your team will play, though. You get your money back if your team doesn't qualify. You can also buy a ticket (or at least could in 2010) that allows you to follow your team as far as it advances, and even to buy a ticket that allows you to keep going to games even if your team loses -- you just get a ticket for the game your team would have played if they won. These tickets are called TSTs (Team Specific Tickets). Because they are sold before the teams have event qualified, there is wild speculation in these tickets, because if you get lucky and buy the right one, it gives you a ticket to the final automatically, whether or not your team makes it. You may be able to buy a TST for Angola, but your chances of them making it are not high. FIFA puts limits on the number of tickets you can purchase or the teams you can try to get, so you have to choose carefully.

You can also buy tickets to a particular venue or venues -- that is, you get tickets for certain games no matter who is playing. These will be popular tickets given the distances between venues and the difficulty of traveling within Brazil. In Germany, these were less popular, because you could get everywhere by train.

I would not expect tickets to go on sale for Brazil as early in the year as they went on sale for South Africa, because sales will be better for this world cup. But it really could be any time in the next few months.

You can also start to buy tickets for the knock out rounds well before anyone has any idea who will play in them. Indeed, nobody knows who will be in the knock out rounds until a few days before, so they sell these early.