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Boycott the shit outta this fash cup

Thanks to everyone refusing to spend money in or toward my country right now, you're literally keeping money away from an organization trying to terrorize and imprison us or worse.

Screwing over FIFA is a nice cherry on top too.

So, a lot of tickets have been sold, but no hotels have been booked so far? Maybe ticket scalpers don't need hotels?

And why the heck should anybody travel to the US under the current administration, where ICE puts random people in concentration camps?

Fuck FIFA and their boot licking, corrupt bullshit. Somehow I think they've managed to be more corrupt than any of the US based sporting organizations.

The AHLA said this does not align with Fifa's statement that more than five million tickets have been sold,, external and it creates a risk that "the anticipated economic lift may fall short".

Lol...

It's obvious what's happening, but it's not as good as people are thinking.

The reason to kets are so expensive, is American reselling processes.

Scalpers ought up all the tickets immediately, and instantly relisted them for higher. New scalpers are buying those, and listing them again.

Everytime they're resold, another cut gets taken out by Ticketmaster. And Fifa is likely getting a piece of that in addition to their original piece.

FIFA is going to make a shit ton of money. Scalpers may lose some, but what little "economic incentive" from the games won't materialize, because we're almost guaranteed to have a bunch of "unsold" tickets that were sold 4-5 times already.

People already there may be able to capitalize on tickets being cheap right before games start as scalpers panic, but no one will travel short notice. And once the first games air with a bunch of empty seats, people will try to wait till last minute and buy tickets. Likely getting ripped off at the event and trying to enter with fake tickets

The entire thing is going to turn into a giant cluserfuck, and that's without ICE running around like they're almost guaranteed to.

You couldn't pay me enough to show up in the general vicinity of one of these games

OK. First, FIFA booking out a heap of hotel rooms then dropping them when they realised they won't be able to scalp them is shitty behaviour, but probably not out of the norm. Raising prices to astronomical heights is also shitty behaviour, but it's the capitalist nation of the world so what do you expect?

The elephant in the room that got glossed over with one sentence in the article is: nobody in their right mind wants to visit the USA. The place is a fucking disaster and the chances of a foreigner getting shot, locked up or deported for pretty much no reason is so high you've got to be a total fuckwit to want to go there. If I was given a free ticket to the US with spending money included, I'd still be asking for a refund.

I still hope the Canada and Mexico games are completely sold out though. Watching the juxtaposition of empty "free world" stadia vs full "shit hole country" stadia is going to be glorious.

Good.

If the World Cup has a lot of half empty stadia, I'd be happy.

It might be interesting if the Mexican and Canadian stadia were full though.

No problem.

FIFA's inaugural Peace Prize winner will fix everything.

Turns out people don't want to come to your country when you harass them at the gate. Write that down, maybe we'll remember it for later...probably not.

Your pedo boss made it crystal clear that it doesn't want "aliens" in the US. Why are you all acting surprised when no "aliens" are coming? Or is the surprised because we are the "right kind of alien"?

Maybe they can use AI to fix this. /s

I know I wouldn't want to travel here. White ladies from Canada, UK, and Australia have ended up in detention centers. They're supposed to be the demographic MAGA pretends to want to protect.

Nobody wants to be in the deportation world cup

That's what happens when 70 million voters drink too much nasty Orange Kool-Aid. FIFA should move all the knock out stage matches, including the final, to Mexico and Canada.

Hey just a general PSA; can anyone help me find my tiny violin I think I lost it somewhere

What's an unfortunate set of circumstances that were completely unavoidable and impossible to predict unless you had an IQ greater than that of a sea pickle.

It's a good thing Donald Trump is an idiot otherwise he'd be utterly humiliated. Fortunately for him he's incapable of such complex emotions.

Good

Next Iran wins Against murica in fifa 2026

And after FIFA gave the prestigious FIFA peace prize to that great peacemaker we call our President. (/s, if that wasn't obvious).

This article is still trying to sale the world cup to Americans. Blue dot fever is everywhere this summer. The only reason you should be traveling for the world cup is to hold up a sign on the outside calling for the arrest BB and Trump.

Nobody likes you anymore

Anyway, I won't be watching the World Cup.

good!

They have it at meadowlands, and NJT wants $98.. Most of the European guests assume they can just walk the mile, but that area is such a car dependent hellscape that you literally can't 🤣🤣🤣 Really paints a picture of the US.. If the top city can't have basic transit or walkable areas then I wouldn't want to return.

considering LA was the first site of the "ice invasion" it got people scared as it was heavily televised throughout the world. THE MSM realized it so they stopped reporting on ice raids as much as they did.

This is PR, the group matches may be half full but i guarantee you every game after will be packed. I wish i was wrong but this is just wishful thinking.

I don't feel like being shot because I will inevitably call an ICE agent a Nazi and tell him to go fuck himself.

US = play stupid games win stupid prizes.

Oh noes FIFAs a bust.

Oh well.

Next.

That doesn’t bode well for the future of the FIFA Peace Prize as an institution

Hmm…does this mean the Mexican and Canadian host cities are going to get swamped instead?

I have zero interest in attending a game, but I do have to make trips to Toronto and the traffic, even at the best of times…