Oh they know there’ll be people paying this for sure. All just to watch their country disappoint them.
We bought a few tickets. I have always wanted to go to a world cup match. We have no idea who is playing. We can’t resell the tickets if the teams don’t match. It is so fucking stupid. My wife got kinda tricked as she knows I always wanted to go. Fuck FIFA and USA soccer for being compliant.
Can you explain more about not being able to resell if the teams don’t match?
Presale tickets are for time and location. They are sold to a degree already. The groups are not even made. The teams haven’t even qualified. The only ones that are, are US, Mexico an Canada. If you want one of those in presale, you had to buy for 4 - 8 games, high price locations. It is so stupid and greedy. You can’t not by terms resell them using any service. You could theoretically resell them directly person to person, but that is not easy.
Understood, thank you. Looks like the jacked up the original prices to resell levels.
That’s a lot to invest for sure.
You buy tickets to watch your favorite country play in the finals. They get booted in the semifinals. You’re stuck watching two teams you dgaf about.
And on top off that FIFA is also selling NFTs that might get you the opportunity to potentially buy a ticket.
The whole process is bordering on gambling.
Your are gambling buying tickets for a match between two teams that might not play, and gambling buying NFTs to be chosen to be put in a draw to buy tickets.
I am so done with these enormous events. Money fucks up everything. FIFA, IOC, Formula 1, (any other sufficiently large international sports organization, tbh), Eurovision, they all suck. Corrupt leadership in the pockets of the worst states: Russia, Qatar, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Trump’s regime, France 😉
agreed(even if i live in Qatar)
Not only is this a ripoff, but traveling to the United States right now from literally any foreign country is a terrible idea.
If you get picked up off the street by the secret police, there’s nobody who can come to your aid at that point.
I’m Canadian, and there’s a work conference in the states in an area I really would have wanted to go to if it were a year ago.
All expenses paid by the company for a week of travel and schmoozing.
Still not going.
Ditto. SKO in Vegas early next year, all paid. Staying home.
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Or just come to Canada and die in a fire that was set by the mafia in your egressless airbnb.
As an American, you would have to be so fucking stupid to come here for this.
At least you only need a one-way ticket. Your return flight will be at no cost to you. Although the destination is not negotiable.
Good luck seeing the game then. “No return ticket? That’s suspicious, you won’t be allowed to enter.”
“No return ticket? That’s suspicious, you won’t be allowed to enter.”
Yeah, that was one of my most brick shittingests moments when I decided to migrate, planned how to leave my life in europe, made it so that all my possessions fit in one luggage and backpack, VISITED MY FRIEND IN DENMARK as a final goodbye like an idiot, and when I was trying to check in at Copenhagen airport “Do you not have a return ticket? Some countries don’t let you enter without a return ticket” I shat a brick.
(EDIT : What the fuck was I meant to do in a completely foreign country with all my posessions, and my mate going to work who needed his own space and his own life? Oh yeah, ditch work and let me back in because I have no idea what the fuck to do anymore?)
I got allowed through because the country I moved to is based 😎
European countries have done the same for a long time though. Your Schengen visa application can easily be declined if you do not show that you have accomodations and a return ticket already taken care of. It’s not a strict automatic rejection afaik, but it’s most definitely not unheard of. It’s also common for the border police to ask to see your return tickets, depending on your… appearance.
Now this would depend on you having the cash available to do this but couldn’t you just buy a refundable plane or bus ticket? That way you’d have an outbound ticket but could refund it later if you get a visa extension or visa reclassification.
Again, the moment I found out about this rule was when was trying to check in. I figured that I’d visit indefinitely, try to get a job, and my job could assist me in getting citizenship. So yeah, I could have done that, if I knew it was required. It’s usually how visa overstays work, so people do game the system from time to time.
Turns out this place is very based… kinda. Visa free visits for 90 days, if you need to stay longer you just do a day trip to a neighboring country. You can just get a job with no problems, and THEN apply for residency, at which point you CAN’T leave without a return certificate.
So no need to do that kinda stuff.
Would you be comfortable dmimg what country this was for?
I’ll just say it, it’s Uruguay. I just don’t like to blare it constantly.
Although the destination is not negotiable.
Have fun in El Salvador or Ghana!
Or Uganda. Or if you’re REALLY unlucky, Mississippi.
That got me!!
Good news, there are a lot of stupid people out there.
With that much money?
You’d be surprised. There are also people who will go into debt just to watch some of those games
Oh yes, it’s much easier to be stupid when you’re rich, because money insulates you from consequences that you might normally learn from
That’s actually a really good point.
FIFA is one of the most corrupt, rotten organisations on the planet.
Alongside the current US administration.
Well then they’ve found the perfect country
Yeah, that’s almost certainly a significant to decisive part of the reason why the US bid was accepted over the other applications: the bribes and the president basically being the American Infantino.
also you get to be deported ! what a shit show
That’s why the high price.
Ending up on an ICE concentration camp: priceless
And for everything else there’s MasterCard
Which will get blocked, because you bought a doujin where the girl had cat ears, which is obviously “bestiality”,
so Visa and Mastercard’s monopoly wouldn’t get challenged by the Trump regime, which seeks to ban pornographybecause of a relatively unknown Australian feminist groupwith ties to christian fundamentalists and other pro-censorship groups.
Between the ticket prices and the, ah, challenging political climate in the US, I am really curious what game attendance will be.
Packed. I sadly have no doubt.
Yeah, then ICE will raid the events.
It’s the most popular sporting event on the planet in a country with 300 million people, this is nothing like the Club World Cup that was held this year. The lack of tourists might not be a problem, save for maybe atmosphere.
This chart, with the huge ticket prices, is why the US was chosen.
How popular is non-american football in the US? I know its been getting more popular recently, but unlike most of europe and south america, it’s far from the #1 sport.
I have no doubt the canadian and mexican games (and the finals) will be sold out, but with these prices, the state of the US economy, and no sane person wanting to travel there, I wouldn’t be super surprised if some games in the US weren’t. After all, if you’re not from NA, you can just go to the next one 4 years later and it’s probably much cheaper.
Sadly it won’t be the ghost stadiums it would deserve though.
Will probably be great in Mexico and Canada, they’ll probably fill the stadiums there with the people who don’t want to go to the US to see it.
Sucks to be Mexican. The world cups finally coming to your country after 40 years and the tickets are too expensive for the locals to afford.
Sucks to be Mexican. The world cups finally coming to your country after 40 years and the tickets are too expensive for the locals to afford.
They don’t want the poor to attend because they are the one that will turn the stadium into a protest.
Don’t forget the Ticketmaster fee.
I’m not even gonna watch it for free in TV
It is legitimately dangerous to travel to the United States, because of state sanctioned violence.
At least there’s price gouging to offset concerns about personal safety, the very real possibility of being sent to a Concentration Camp, etc.
Remember the 1936 Berlin Games?
iirc the government went out of its way to be accommodating to all attendees.
Remember the 1936 Berlin Games?iirc the government went out of its way to be accommodating to all attendees.
Banking on Trump being as coordinated and thoughtful as Hitler is not an overly wise way to reassure people.
True, History will remember Trump as ‘Clumsy Hitler.’
“He could have ruled the world, if not for his tiny hands.”
Hitler cared about world perception of the Reich. Trump isn’t looking to earn adoration and praise, he thinks it’s his due.
I’m always stunned by how tiny his mind is.
I mean, if I were a crooked President, I’d have extorted $50 billion form the Saudis on Inauguration Day 2016.
Team Rocket could have figured that play out. Meanwhile we have to watch him peddle sneakers and watches to his dupes.
if I were a crooked President, I’d have extorted $50 billion form the Saudis on Inauguration Day 2016
It’s not as much or as fast, but he HAS enriched himself by several billion dollars.
In fact, the majority of his wealth is now in meme coins specifically created to skirt campaign finance rules and other anti corruption laws and regulations.
WTF. This is such a huge waste of money. I don’t know how people spend this much money to watch OTHER PEOPLE play a sport. A couple hundred at most.
Lol.
The Divided States of Trashcanistan hasn’t hosted since 1994 and it’s going to be an absolute garbage shitshow for the wealthy only. Probably plagued with ICE terrorists. Not to mention another year under this admin and the dollar will probably have tanked another 10% and our cost of living will probably be even more absurd.
There’s going to be 6 games within a 2 hour drive from me and I have no intention of going to any of them, despite spending the last few decades fantasizing about going to a World Cup game with some friends.
Pathetic shithole.
For the cheapest ticket you could have flown to the (excellent) womans European championship, got a CAT1 ticket,see Geneva and fly back.
You won the internet today.
