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.
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.
also you get to be deported ! what a shit show
That’s why the high price.
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.
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’m not even gonna watch it for free in TV
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)
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.
Don’t forget the Ticketmaster fee.
Oh they know there’ll be people paying this for sure. All just to watch their country disappoint them.
The RWC (rugby world cup) after this in Australia will have $20 tickets for kids…
I however found it mildly interesting that Zohran Mamdani was making this part of the issues he’s messaging about for NYC, to at least drive down the price for locals. Free childcare, public owned groceries, sure, but FIFA tickets? Yet this graphic kinda puts that in perspective, so I get it.
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.
How many people died again for the one in Qatar?
Think America will match it?
I don’t think even the MAGAs can fuck with OSHA
the most depressing part is how small this page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-FIFA_international_football
This makes me want to go watch the 2029 Island Games on IoM just out of spite
