Not just the cost. The corruption carries a stink. People dont want to travel to america as they worry they wont be welcome by the border control. Nobody wants to spend thousands to end up in detention.
I live in the US and within traveling distance. I can absolutely afford the tickets. I am a lifelong supporter of the sport.
Fuck FIFA. Fuck the US.
Same. I love football, live within reasonable distance of a stadium, and am at a stage of life where I could definitely attend some matches and see some of my favorite players.
Not even going to watch on TV.
My MLS club is sending out emails offering “discounted” tickets to the US v Paraguay team. It was hard to click the trash can icon while laughing so hard.
My extreme excitement for this WC turned into extreme desire for pure chaos and disaster. All the reasons I boycotted Russia and Qatar are being done by the US.
You mean like actual FIFA referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan who was barred from entering the US and had to fly home?
And these dingbats want people to drop thousands on travel, accommodation and tickets? Tickets to see the event where actual game officials are turned back at the border? Good luck 👍
He’s going to red matches in Vancouver.
I heard! Love Canada
The cheapest seat costs USD$1120, when most of the world is in a cost of living crisis.
It’s insane. Literally insane. I’m a normal world it would be a joke and they would be laughed out. There’s just so much fuckery going on in the background with deals and bribes. That’s all it’s good for now. Making certain people money. It’s always been a massive drain on resources
good
Took the word right out of my mouth
Personally, I’m boycotting the World Cup, so…
Same. My apathy of football is suddenly a virtue.
Me too, but I usually don’t watch football anyway so it’s not exactly different from standard operating procedure
In any case, it won’t deflect attention from Trump’s crimes.
FIFA and scalpers can go screw themselves.
Meanwhile, resale platforms such as StubHub and SeatGeek — and FIFA’s own marketplace — also show thousands of tickets on sale.
Even President Trump said he wouldn’t pay those prices. “I would certainly like to be there, but I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest with you,” Trump told the New York Post in a recent interview.
And on this:
“The hope or bet — for FIFA is that once the matches start — and the greatest players in the world compete for the most prestigious prize of them all, the sport as business lens will fade into the background and the World Cup will be seen and experienced as the enduring global institution that it is,” Shields says. “We shall see.”
No way. You can’t separate the two anymore. The pretense of “that income mostly benefitting the sport” is kinda laughable now.
Why would you overpay just so you could be thrown in a concentration camp by the orange pig’s personal goonsquad.
Yeah, it is going to get awkward for FIFA playing in half filled stadiums.
Maybe they should hand out a few more peace prizes.
Not tryna dox myself but I was able to get a ticket to the Argentina vs Iceland warm up match held 2 days ago in Auburn because Auburn University sold the tickets directly for $78, and they still didn’t sell out the stadium, so you could buy tickets for as low as $40 from resellers.
And they played Messi too so its not like it was some B squad match, they all actually showed up.
If Auburn couldn’t sell out the stadium for such a game, there’s no way FIFA is filling any of the world cup matches except for maybe semis and finals.
Yeah Jordan Hare is more full than that when an fcs team comes to town…
I’m not sure you can really compare those two games.
It’s a litrle like the world series versus spring training.
Even if the second one coats 10% of the first, there’s way more demand for the first.
I mean I’m underselling with “spring training”, but still. Are those 2 events really comparable?
Pretty soon the only ones watching anything will be the Space Billionaires. /s
Sarcasm? No you were being straight-up
Surely not as bad as Qatar. FIFA dgaf
I’d rather watch the A-league
