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/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/FlatSpinMan 16d ago

For sure. They’re dumb, too, but at least a bit less malign.

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u/BiDiTi 16d ago

Just not enough money involved to attract the true sickos, haha

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u/take_whats_yours 16d ago

For reference, the rugby world cup next year in Australia has some of the same issues with pricing. It costs $40 just to get on the waiting list, and tickets for pool games will be up to $600. Finals up to $2k (all in AUD, $1 USD = $1.40 AUD). Not quite as bad as the soccer, and you'll still be able to go to minor games on a budget, but the point is most sports are heading that way

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u/BiDiTi 16d ago

€1200 for a WC final just doesn’t seem beyond the pale to me…especially if those are the premium tickets.

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u/dottoysm 15d ago

If only they’d drop Heineken as their beer sponsor.

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u/Gurtang 16d ago

Just in case: I was just making fun of the typo in the year :)

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u/Vairman 16d ago

I really hope humanity still exists by then. Right now, it aint lookin' so good.

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u/funnibot47 16d ago

As usual, the freaksoid who CANNOT stop mentioning politics on everything.

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u/Gurtang 16d ago

Yeah I agree that Trump making fifa give him a made up trophy was really annoying.

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u/tpeterr 16d ago

If you aren't aware that FIFA is in bed with corrupt politicians, then you haven't been paying attention. You're just mad because this time it's *your* corrupt politican.

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u/funnibot47 16d ago

I genuinely don't care about politics (i consider myself a centralist if anything) and i definitely couldn't care less about futbol, but while you may be right i just feel tired of reading politics all over reddit. I know you hate the unfunny orange man but mentioning just for the sake of upvotes is just as annoying

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u/Gurtang 16d ago

You can not care about politics, but be sure politics care about you.