If FIFA loses a billion or so on this, I'll still be largely indifferent, but slightly pleased. It's hard for me to give a shit about massive sports organizations like FIFA or the Olympic Games. They're evil and corrupt and irrelevant to what matters in my life.
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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 👍
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The cheapest seat costs USD$1120, when most of the world is in a cost of living crisis.
That's like several months of food. Or years worth of video games. That's so expensive. Even if I was a big fan of the sport, I wouldn't be able to justify spending that.
Maybe even 128GB of RAM.
I'm a huge fan of the sport, living in the city where the game is held, with more than enough money to afford those tickets. I'm not even considering spending that.
For entertainment ticket price perspective, I paid less than $50 to see half of Led Zeppelin in concert (Jimmy Page & Robert Plant show) and it was fuckin' awesome. But I'm not a sports fan so I wouldn't pay even $50 to see a FIFA match.
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
soooooo the lower class is getting priced out of both the bread AND the circuses?
This is an insanely poignant analogy. At least the Romans had their collosium before they fell. We ain't even got that.
Even the worst emperors made sure the circuses were accessible.
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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.
I've seen a significant lack of discussion around boycotting it. It was a huge part of the discourse around Qatar, so I wish it was a bit more widespread and "normalised" for this one as well.
It's not a virtue signal any more, no need to announce it.
I live in a host city and there is zero excitement.
No locals are mentioning it as a sporting event, it's a hassle that's going to fuck with transit and make everything cost twice as much.
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Me too, but I usually don't watch football anyway so it's not exactly different from standard operating procedure
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Hurrah! Let's keep pushing those numbers down for all games in the USA. Maybe even reschedule the final away from the Meadowlands.
Amen, please get it out of Jersey, it was never going to be a boon, only a burden.
No kidding. Route 3 is going to be madness. I feel a great swell of pity for the poor folks living in East Rutherford, Lyndhurst, Moonachie, and Secaucus.
It isn't like Arlington, TX is going to be that much better.
I avoid the metroplex like the plague already.
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.
Yeah, it is going to get awkward for FIFA playing in half filled stadiums.
Why would you overpay just so you could be thrown in a concentration camp by the orange pig's personal goonsquad.
A single ticket sold is already one ticket too much.
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.
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Pretty soon the only ones watching anything will be the Space Billionaires. /s
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Surely not as bad as Qatar. FIFA dgaf
I'm not buying
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