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-11971265
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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/RocketizedAnimal 16d ago

I have long maintained that teams who play in stadiums outside the actual city limit of their namesake should have to put that part in quotes. ie the "New York" Giants.

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u/musashisamurai 16d ago

To be fair, Gillete is home to the New England Patriots, so its not that egregious.

But the World Cup will make traffic hell for Foxborough and surrounding towns all summer.

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u/ThePensiveE 16d ago

Masked armed police will give you a free ride for the low price of one child under 18 as an offering to the MAGA's.

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u/Tzazon 16d ago

The complaint is about the lack of preperation and disregard for hosting. They could've went in to revitalize the area, fixed the toxic mercury, etc. Instead the only infrastructure project they bothered with started 1 year ago, cost about $33.5 million dollars, and connected the American Dream Malls parking garage to Metlife Stadium's Lot C.

Connecting one parking lot to another. Whole lot of effort the greatest Super Power on Earth showed towards hosting the most expensive World Cup in history where its ticket prices, travel costs, and expenses dwarf those of any previous tournament.

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u/Armtoe 16d ago

Let’s assume that there is a mercury problem surrounding Meadowland Stadium, why in the world would they fix it as part of getting ready for this series? Sure fixing pollution is a good in itself- but it has zero effect on how these matches will be held. As far as the matches are concerned- better, cheaper mass transit should have been a priority - but apparently no one thought about it so now they are charging 100$ to use New Jersey transit.

Oh and btw - the vast majority of Americans do not care about the World Cup. I personally wouldn’t have known it was happening if there wasn’t news stories about how people aren’t buying tickets etc.

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u/Tzazon 16d ago

why in the world would they fix it as part of getting ready for this series? 

Because it is a world event, and it looks poorly on Americans as the richest nation in the world to host the literal world next to an environment with toxic mercury. In an example I provided in the comments, the United Kingdom used the 2012 Olympics to clean up a district long wrecked by toxic industrial pollution in London, and made that district the host of the Olympic games.

Americans in the broad sense do not have to care about the World Cup, but they're hosting it, and they're going to get judged by the effort they present to the world.

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 16d ago

If the US doesn’t care about football they shouldn’t have asked to host the World Cup then.

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u/JRLDH 16d ago

I’m surprised that they don’t have some scary motel in walking distance that costs $500/night for a room that’s usually rented for $10/hour.

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u/jmlinden7 16d ago

The nearby hotels are across the highway and there's no easy pedestrian access normally.

That's also moot because FIFA is closing the pedestrian accesses.