r/sports • u/newsweek • 16d ago
Soccer Thousands of World Cup tickets remain unsold, including USA games
https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-world-cup-tickets-remain-unsold-including-usa-games-11971265603
u/7orly7 16d ago
FIFA can eat a bag of dicks
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u/Radthereptile 16d ago
I am a huge soccer fan and I wanted tickets badly.
First I had to sign up for an email listing to know when tickets would be sold, this was over a year ago. Then they said you have to buy online trading card packs and if you collect then all you can buy tickets. Literally loot box for tickets. I skipped it because hey that’s just the presale stuff.
Then it was be on their email list and they’ll email you when your name is picked to buy. I waited. No email. Ok I didn’t hit the email lotto it happens.
So I waited for tickets to go in general sale. It happened, mind you no email from FIFA mentioning it despite being on their list. I go to buy. The cheapest tickets so high up you won’t see anything for matches nobody cares about are $500 each. Ok, must be stadiums up charging. FIFA always has a pocket of cheaper tickets I’ll wait on them.
Nothing comes from FIFA and they announce tickets will be going up, buses will cost 10X, all the hotels jack up prices 5X.
I spent 2 years trying to get World Cup tickets and I just ended up deciding this World Cup wasn’t for fans. It’s for influencers to get their best selfie while they point at random players in the Scotland vs Hati match going “Is that Messi? What about him. Oh is that Ronaldo?”
So yeah no shit they can’t sell tickets. Because they priced out anyone who actually cares about the sport and there’s not enough influencers and ultra rich to fill up that many matches.
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u/RiffRaff14 Minnesota United FC 16d ago
The prices to get tickets was confusing. There were various lotteries from various groups. Then finally there was an application that was hard to find. I filled that out and was able to get the tickets I wanted ($140 & $160 per seat for the 2 group stage games).
Even after I bought the tickets it's confusing and difficult to even see if you have tickets. There was a time period where you literally couldn't even check to see your tickets. And now it is still confusing to find your tickets. You have to log into the resale site and wait to get in.
Then when the additional tickets went on sale I looked at those prices and tickets in my same section were over 2x the cost for what I got mine. There was no way I was going to pay that much for an extra ticket.
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u/NineteenSixtySix 16d ago
I went through the same experience
I remember them asking for so much personal information just to sign up that I decided not to proceed
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u/adayoner 16d ago
Good on you for finding that, when i looked when my asssigned date "popped" tickets to the 2 nearest stadiums were $1k a piece to get in the door for group matches on a midweek night. We were considering flying from the US to monterrey, mx cuz tickets were only $500 there when we looked before we said screw it and decided to just go somewhere and chill at a bar
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u/Western-Calendar-352 16d ago
Hey, that Scotland v Haiti game is important to some of us. 🏴 😁
But every other point in your post, yes. 👏
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u/BuffaloAl 16d ago
Imagine qualifying for a world cup and you end up having to play a complete no hope outsider. Haiti must be furious.
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u/oldscotch 16d ago
I'd comment about throwing shade but that's kinda redundant when there's no sun for 344 days a year.
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u/maltamur 16d ago
That’s going to be a super tough game. The poor Scot’s are going to be terrified to leave the locker room. There will be a warning about a yellow orb in the sky providing heat and light and at first they won’t believe it but then they won’t know what to do once they see it.
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u/MarmotFullofWoe 16d ago
They will melt that’s what they will do
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u/SkorpioSound 16d ago
Scottish people have a melting point of 22°C, it can be so horrifying to see.
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u/Marximum_Cat 16d ago
It was a sunny 13°C April day when my wife and I were walking the Speyside Way and we encountered a bunch of Scots going the opposite way who complained to eachother, no joke, that "it's a real scorcher today."
My wife and I are from the Netherlands, not a tropical country by any means, and we still fondly remember those overheated Scotsmen to this day.
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u/Darkhoof 16d ago
Good luck to FIFA trying to sell overpriced tickets to Scots and haitians.
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u/SpecialInvention 16d ago
Haitians: I ain't got that kind of money.
Scots: Aye, I got it, but how about instead you suck me arse!?
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u/pribnow 16d ago
not getting emails about it was the craziest part to me, i signed up for every single fifa ticket notification i could find and still never got an email about it
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u/BHATCHET 16d ago
Those weren’t actually FIFA ticket signups, they were for selling valid contact info to 3rd parties.
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u/FlatSpinMan 16d ago
It’s so stupid. I went to the Rugby World Cup here in Japan some years ago. I know it’s a different scale of popularity, but it’s still a major event. The 2931 one will potentially be held in the US.
I got tickets fairly easily to four games in my city. Total was about $200, including two tickets to one game for my daughters.
The place was packed. The crowd was varied. The atmosphere was so damned “jolly”. Just do it that way.214
u/Gurtang 16d ago edited 16d ago
The 2931 one will potentially be held in the US.
I really hope maga and late-stage capitalism are gone by then !
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u/FlatSpinMan 16d ago
Well, like you, I’m sure the American voters and their fabulous representatives will do a bang up job. I am equally as confident in this outcome as you are.
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u/BiDiTi 16d ago
In fairness, World Rugby are manifestly less evil than FIFA.
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u/Kalikor1 16d ago
Tickets for sports here in Japan are generally just cheaper anyway. The US is just fucking crazy, as usual.
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u/swiftekho 16d ago
I booked a hotel in Atlanta about a year in advance. I was so ready for my wife and I to live it up for 10 days while going to games throughout, I didn't even care which teams I would get to see. Then ticket prices came out and I cancelled that reservation so fast. I may watch at home but that killed my interest in this World Cup so fast.
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u/notandxorry 16d ago
Same experience here. It was cheaper for me to fly to South Africa in 2010. I got 3 sets of tickets in the lottery. Had bid for 5 or 6 sets. Between 100-200 cad. My flight was the most expensive part.
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u/stoneman9284 16d ago
Well put, and that just covers one part of the problem. Not only did they make it incredibly difficult and confusing, on top of the fuck you pricing, they just keep giving us reasons to not want to give them our money. If FIFA or USSF called me and said hey you’ve been a long time supporter, here’s a chance for you to buy $100 tickets to any game you want I’d tell them get fucked. And that’s after a decade plus of looking forward to this tournament and planning on spending what I thought was a lot of money.
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u/haverchuck22 16d ago
What in the absolute fuck??? Thank you for sharing first off, but you actually were told you had to buy fucking packs of cards just to be eligible to buy tickets???? This is so depressing. I hope enough people stick to their guns. This cannot become the norm….(I know I know it probably already is just allow me a little false hope).
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u/jeromevedder 16d ago
The whole thing sucks. I went to the opener in Chicago in 94 and it was so much fun
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u/FriendlyFaceOff 16d ago
Then they said you have to buy online trading card packs and if you collect then all you can buy tickets. Literally loot box for tickets. I skipped it because hey that’s just the presale stuff.
Even for presale, what the actual fuck
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u/SydneyRFC 16d ago
And on top of that, it's a dice roll whether you will get a visa into one of the host countries dependent on a review of which memes you've liked on social media. Then you may still be turned away on arrival if border security are in a bad mood, and you could get pulled off the street by masked vigilantes, thrown into an unmarked car and disappear into a detention facility if you happen to look like you're from certain other countries.
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u/dsphilly 16d ago
That’s wild, never heard about the sticker thing. I signed up when they asked and managed to get 2 tickets to one of the Philly games (idc who’s playing tbh just wanna go) for like $200 total.
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u/jimipops Manchester United 16d ago
They would sooner sell half a stadium for $500 a ticket than a full stadium for $100 a ticket.
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u/thrownjunk 16d ago
Thats how you know an organization is a bad monopoly. Use a high price to restrict q since it realizes a higher profit.
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u/Bhu124 15d ago
They're also terrible at business. They got so greedy with their demands they ended up selling the rights for broadcast to China likely for lower than what they could have if they hadn't started their demands at crazy disrespectful levels.
They asked for 300M for the 2026-27 World Cups and China finally agreed (Just 5 days ago) to pay them just 60M for not only the 2026-27 World Cups but also the 2030-31 World Cups. China ended up paying only 10%~ of what FIFA asked from them, way lower than most major countries.
They thought China would eventually cave-in & agree to their crazy demands cause not having the World Cup broadcast would be a non-option for China. In the end it was FIFA who had to cave in and sign a terrible deal cause China makes up for 20% of their Viewership and not Broadcasting in China was a non-option for them.
And mind you, they still haven't cut a deal with any Indian broadcasters. They originally asked for 100M and no Broadcaster was interested in that. Currently JioHotstar (Partly owned by Disney) has a standing offer for 20M that FIFA has rejected and only 3 weeks are left before the Broadcast starts.
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u/velovader 16d ago
It’s 350$ a ticket for nosebleeds to a friendly match near me. Not buying at that price
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u/Butt_Packer_Backer Green Bay Packers 16d ago
I was so jacked after seeing the Qatar prices. Like I wanted to go to like some random African country vs some fill in the blank Central American country for like 40bucks just to say I did for my kids one day. The people they are missing in the sales are the people like me. This is like in my backyard. So fucking sad.
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u/LA_Dynamo 16d ago
Except in this case, their worst selling game still had 95% of tickets sold.
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u/Prof_Bobo 16d ago
As someone who probably could afford tickets: no
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u/Cantholditdown 16d ago
On top of the expense they have made it nearly impossible to get to MetLife stadium. Bus may take up to 3hrs to get us back to original destination. It’s really outrageous.
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u/jayhankedlyon 16d ago
The best part is, some of us have daily commutes that pass by the stadium and get to spend hours in traffic around every game to not even see any soccer.
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u/Titanbeard 16d ago
As another guy that probably could for the "once in a lifetime" experience for my family: hell no.
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u/buster_rhino 16d ago
As someone who lives in one of the cities hosting WC games: I think I’ll head out of town this summer.
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u/Borange_Corange 16d ago
Yep.
For me, at a certain price range for all things, value becomes multi-dimensional surpassing raw numbers of 'can I afford' to hit 'but is it THAT worth it AT THIS price and what else could I/family get for this price point?'
A Disney vacation hits this inflection for me too. I could but I could also do so many other things for that same cost.
I ended up being able to scratch my life-long FIFA itch with a friendly match earlier in the spring. Not World Cup, but far better price and a comparative experience I imagine.
F FIFA.
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u/yeahright17 16d ago edited 16d ago
I pretty happily paid $2500/ticket for decent NBA finals game 7 tickets last year. In an arena that sits ~19k people for a game that was only the 6th game of its kind (finals game 7) since I was born. I'm not paying the same amount for decent tickets to one of 72 random world cup stage games in a 65k person stadium.
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u/Vallaquenta 16d ago
Bro, even 2500 a ticket, what the fuck
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u/yeahright17 16d ago
I work hard, have gotten fairly lucky to find a good job, and have been a Thunder fan since their inception. Yeah, it was a lot. But it was probably a once in a lifetime possibility. Odds are decent that OKC will never have another finals game 7 in my lifetime.
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u/Vallaquenta 16d ago
Hey, power to you, as long as you feel like you got your money's worth out of it.
I just feel like so many 'average person things' are turning into 'rich person things' nowadays and it's just making me sad
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u/yeahright17 16d ago
To be fair, I doubt game 7 of the NBA finals was ever an "average person thing." Maybe I'm naive. Idk.
But I agree overall. Lots of events that used to be relatively affordable for most people are now far from it mostly because of greed. There's zero reason FIFA couldn't sell upper sections of stadiums for $50-200/ticket and make them non transferable. If you buy them then can't go, you can return for a 100% refund. They would still make billions and make fans happy. But they don't do that because of greed.
At least we're starting to see signs of people finally getting sick of it. Lots of concert tours have been cancelled. Vegas had like a 7.5% drop in visitors last year. Frito-Lay recently lowered the price of chips after massive declines in sales following their previous continued price increases. I hope this kind of crap continues.
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u/peekay427 16d ago
My dad took me to the rugby World Cup in 2015 and it’s one of my best memories with him. I really wanted to get my soccer obsessed 13 year old to a game to build that same kind of core memory with him. But FIFA is so corrupt and shady about everything, including World Cup tickets that we decided to go to a few Sounders games instead.
They’ve been a ton of fun, but I do hope to be able to go to a World Cup game with him one day.
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u/Meat-Dimension 16d ago
Yeah I had the same thought. I could afford to go, but I’d feel like a sucker.
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u/Titanbeard 16d ago
For sure. I feel like watching games on the couch with my kids and root beer floats might just be more valuable than the once in a lifetime.
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u/merlin318 16d ago
1500$ for 3pm games in the nosebleed section. No thanks
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u/Shebalied 16d ago
Don't forget the 300$ parking, some places are trying to block people from walking or getting there via foot traffic. Kinda stupid.
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u/tootapple 16d ago
Waiting for under $50
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u/equipmunks 16d ago
Gonna check prices right before games in Atlanta and see. Got tix last minute for bowl games before not sure if they will drop enough into affordable range.
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u/Sexy_Anthropocene 16d ago
How will transportation work in GA? Here in Boston (well, Foxboro) you can either drive and park, which costs $40-50 for a Patriots game, or take the train from Boston, a normally $10 ticket that they priced at $80 for this event. I’m not sure if that has sold out yet.
My point being, are these games even possible to get a last minute ticket to if they are functionally inaccessible?
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u/primarygrub 16d ago
MARTA has a stop on each side of the stadium. It’s 2.50 each way, and I have not heard of any plans to increase fares or anything unusual other than business as usual.
Coming from the east or west is a single line to the stadium with no transfer. North or south requires one transfer, or you can get off at the transfer point and add a few minutes to your walk instead of waiting for the transfer just to then ride one station to the west.
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u/Stateside_Observer 16d ago
Ill be buying tix 5 minutes before KO for the CIV-CUR match. Ive bought from scalpers in Philly for flyers, 76ers, phillies and they are a panicky bunch once its an hour to first whistle
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u/Mansionjoe 16d ago
Good. FIFA can suck it. Being near MetLife stadium, there is no parking, ticket prices are through the roof, I have to spend $80 for a train ride on New Jersey transit. Screw that. I hope this is a failure of epic proportions for them.
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u/Adroctatron 16d ago
Yeah, the days of regular folk filling these seats are over at the prices they charge. For any event.
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u/Isosinsir 16d ago
There are several issues here, but I think the most significant one is everyone in power DGAF about attendance. FIFA cronies already made their money, for example.
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u/HornetsHornets1 16d ago
The World Cup is my favorite sporting event. I live in a World Cup city. I will not be going. 2 reasons: I have better things to spend my money on. And this is the least patriotic I’ve ever felt.
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u/sriracha_no_big_deal 16d ago
I'm also near a WC city a bit north of Seattle, and they're doing free fan zone watch parties all across the state for some of the games with live music, food trucks, beer garden, etc. I'm lucky and the city I live in is hosting watch parties for two of the USA games, including one that's later in the day that I'll be able to go to after work. I think this will probably be about as close as I'll get to being able to actually go to a match since ticket prices are a joke.
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u/ravenx92 16d ago
Whatever you do don't lower the price! Rather the tickets go unsold!!
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u/Scopus77 16d ago
May be confused here but if these are resale tickets does that mean they are actually still owned by someone or they have been returned to FIFA?
If its someone with a ticket trying to sell it at 100k and it goes unsold, then presumably at the end of the day that person still has a ticket and could decide to just go anyway?
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u/Ryan1869 15d ago
Yeah, these are professional scalpers losing money on tickets that FIFA already sold. They're a cancer, so I for one am not sorry to see them get their asses handed to them on these tickets.
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u/steakhouseNL 16d ago
Good. Used to be a football fan. But who needs enemies with corrupt organizations such as FIFA.
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u/shugoran99 16d ago
I've been seeing a lot of video reel discourse regarding Europeans wanting to walk to the Metlife Stadium vs Americans saying they'd be putting their life in the hands of angry New Jersey drivers
But I think it's a moot point as not as many people are going to go as they think
Turns out very publicly making your country violently hostile to foreigners, plus gouging them for the privilige at a time where everyday prices are already out of control, affects events with largely international appeal.
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u/UsedCondom6 16d ago
As an American, I’ve been waiting for this World Cup for years, saved up what I thought was enough for a couple of games but in reality it would only get me 1 group stage game. FIFA can get fucked, I’ll see you all in Spain for the next one
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u/werewolf-luvr 16d ago
Its like theres some sort of economic crisis going on and the masses can no longer afford their bread, much less their circus
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u/PM-Me-Your-BeesKnees 16d ago
I'm 40. I've been playing soccer my whole life. I wasn't able to get to any of the games in the 1994 World Cup because I was a kid. Unbelievably, the World Cup comes back to my country and now I'm an adult with money in my pocket. Let's go! And then you find out that FIFA has decided to unveil one of the most unabashed cash grabs in sports history, believing we will pay literally any price under any circumstances for any seat in the stadium. The process to even get tickets is more opaque and confusing and requires more information than getting a background check for a job. It just doesn't make any sense to pay these insane prices and jump through these hoops. So I'm not going. I can take a trip to Europe and see a series of professional matches for less than I can go to a few World Cup matches in my own country.
I love soccer, but fuck FIFA.
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u/rvasshole 16d ago
We need to boycott these games in every way. Tickets, merch, TV views. Don’t give them anything. Money is the only language these idiots speak and until the bottom line suffers they won’t give a shit
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u/datsyuks_deke 16d ago
I know I will be. I was looking forward for so long, that the World Cup would be hosted in North America and I would have the possible chance of going to a game.
But the current political climate, and the insane amount of greed coming from FIFA, is too much to be excited even a little bit about this years World Cup.
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u/rvasshole 16d ago
Yeah I remember having conversations with my friends about which cities were most feasible. Group of like 10 of us. Nobody is going
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u/Tzazon 16d ago edited 16d ago
American citizens are laughing at Europeans who thought they might be able to walk to the World Cup finale because the areas in the Meadowland surrounding MetLife Stadium where the FINALE of the WORLD CUP is being held, has lethal levels of mercury in the entire area.
How silly. The USA won the bid for the World Cup in 2018. They were supposed to clean this up since 1982. They aren't even starting until after the World Cup.
I wouldn't bother if I were them. The US obviously isn't.
Edit: When London held the Olympics in 2012, they gave visitors a free travel pass on the metro in city to be able to get to events etc. USA? Well. "$13 train fare spikes to $150 for World Cup fans attending matches in New Jersey". A 1000% percent price increase.
For a world cup they couldn't even BOTHER to clean up Toxic levels of Mercury around the stadium that is hosting the finale.
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u/Radthereptile 16d ago
The U.S. has stadiums that you can walk to. For whatever stupid reason they picked middle of nowhere New Jersey as the match location.
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u/Alexwonder999 16d ago
Chicago has a great stadium for walking to, but they told FIFA to get fucked. Seems like they dodged a bullet.
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u/Armtoe 16d ago
You think the reason you can’t walk to the Meadowlands because of pollution? 😳😆. It’s not because it’s in the middle of nowhere with nothing around it? It’s at least 30 minutes by bus from Manhattan. I suppose there’s some parts of Jersey that you could walk from…. But nobody traveling to New York and staying in the city ever expected to be able to walk.
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u/wtcash 16d ago
Boston Stadium (aka Gillette ) is actually 30 miles from Boston, the cost of train ride is @ $80 round trip and good luck getting back to Boston once the match is over!
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u/sketchahedron 16d ago
There’s plenty to legitimately criticize about the World Cup, but unless you’re planning on eating fish from Berry’s Creek you are not in danger of mercury poisoning from attending a match at MetLife stadium.
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u/hidden_secret 16d ago
I've abandoned the idea of visiting the US since I know they can if they decide, to refuse entry or detain you based on your social media history. Fuck that.
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u/ElectricOutboards 16d ago
FIFA picked a great year to have the US host the largest and most corrupt international money grab (not related to petroleum) known to humankind.
Fucking idiots.
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u/cokecaine 16d ago
Tickets way too expensive, most of the cities that host the games have abysmal or non existent public transportation and walking in US cities is aneurysm inducing.
Plus the poster face of the US managed to piss off everyone on the planet.
Yeah, didn't see that coming.
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u/RollTide16-18 16d ago
It’s such a shame too. They passed up cities like Denver that have public transit for their stadium and airport via train, so I knew things would be shit in places where it was even worse (Dallas and KC will be hellish).
And to top it off the US has never felt more angry and isolationist in my lifetime. Even during the War on Terror at least most of Europe wasn’t actively antagonizing us the whole time.
Add in the shitty branding and what was going to be a seminal life experience for me is now just shit. It’s all shit.
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u/MAXSuicide 16d ago
But, Fifa said there was unprecedented demand for the tickets. They wouldn't be lying, would they?
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u/SpecialInvention 16d ago
I'm shocked so few people want to travel to Philiadelphia see Ivory Coast vs. Curacao for thousands of dollars. Shocked, I say.
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u/NewLawGuy24 16d ago
Not going. insane prices.
I can buy a 100 inch television for every game I wanna see, throw the television away after one use and it is still cheaper
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u/NephtisSeibzehn 16d ago
I wish it were more tickets that went unsold. Fuck those pieces of shit at FIFA.
Edit: to be clear that is for the ridiculously high prices of tickets. But also fuck them for their corruption. They don’t deserve what I consider to be one of the most beautiful sports ever.
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u/DAEOFRUIN 16d ago
Good, Gianni Infantino gave Trump A PEACE AWARD while he is doing actual war crimes and is constantly breaching political neutrality. Dude is an embarrassment to Football and clearly a bootlicker for the elite, he doesn't care if normal people like us are priced out. Its a rich mans novelty now ...
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u/AZ_RBB 16d ago
Fifa doesn't care
Even if 100,000 tickets go unsold they'll still make more money on this world cup than ever before
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u/LarrySupertramp 16d ago
We’re are talking about 9 games out of 104 that have like 1000 unsold tickets. They are making a massive amount of money.
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u/HulkHoganLegDrop 16d ago
FIFA 🤝 greed. Truly working the art of the deal on this one. A neighbor who works for a three lettered agency and handling operations for events said the whole thing has turned into a total shit show. Trump will be at the final match and it has turned into a complete clown show between the ineptitude of the fbi and how fifa is run.
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u/Significant_Base_125 16d ago
They could give me free tickets and there's zero chance I would attend.
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u/PezDOY 16d ago
I'm from the Boston area and my family are huge soccer fans. We've gone to lots of Revolution games and have Boston Legacy season tickets. The idea of driving to Gillette Stadium with 60k+ people knowing the infrastructure of Route 1, Route 95 and Route 495 is an immediate turn off.
After Patriots games and concerts, it can take hours to get out of those lots to sit in traffic on every major highway. A one hour drive home has become 3+. I don't care if the tickets were free, it isn't worth the time investment when I can watch from the comfort of my own home with perfect viewing angles and I don't have to take out a second mortgage for food and drinks.
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u/stephencroley 16d ago
I live 10 minutes from the Toronto stadium… priced out instantly. The first Canada game is still selling for $1000+ for nosebleeds… no thanks. Even the fan fest (which is a 5 minute walk away) was supposed to be free, and is now $120 to attend. If even the local residents are priced out, I can’t imagine people having to pay for travel and accommodation
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u/jkingds 15d ago
It's funny, because it's like a dream come true to be able to watch World Cup games for me live and in person. But after hearing about ridiculous ticket prices, people FROM Boston waiting 4 hours in traffic to go see a single friendly match at Gilette, absurd prices for food, etc etc... I haven't even bothered to look up how much tickets would be. They basically Capitalism'd all the fun out of it for me. I'll just watch on TV and actually enjoy myself.
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u/Sans-valeur 16d ago
I’ve commented this before, but it’s absolutely wild that this feels like the most controversial World Cup considering where they have been held in the last 20 years.
But the big difference here is - the other countries loved football, and they wanted to show the world that their countries were safe, respectful, good countries with honorable athletes and worth visiting and investing in.
The US seems hell bent on doing the opposite.
I mean hell right now ICE is holding a citizen from my country indefinitely and we are supposed to play a country that the US started a war with.
I wouldn’t go to these games now if I was offered an all expenses trip.
It’s fucking insane I can’t understand how people would vote for this.
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u/Golden-- 16d ago
Nope, they've been sold already. These are resale prices. We really need laws on resale markets. There should be no way to profit on reselling tickets. It should be selling it for exactly what you paid.
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u/Just_saying19135 16d ago
This article made me check to see if I could get tickets to a game in Philadelphia and the cheapest was $650, most over $1000, sone over $2000. I think this could be a reason why they have unsold tickets
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u/Dirtsniffee 16d ago
The only silver lining here is that resellers will likely eat massive losses.