So, a lot of tickets have been sold, but no hotels have been booked so far? Maybe ticket scalpers don’t need hotels?
And why the heck should anybody travel to the US under the current administration, where ICE puts random people in concentration camps?
Yep bunch of scalpers gonna be out cash…and honestly hope no one from a foreign country comes here until ICE is gone. I think people are realizing how dangerous it is to come here as a foreigner right now.
I highly recommend people avoid the USA. It’s really bad. Yes, you will be arrested and the more time you spend in prison, the more money they get. So they won’t let you go for months/years. Don’t come here.
Never crossed my mind.
Even before diaper Donnie took power, I still didn’t wanna go to the USA. It’s been a shit hole for decades. Longer than I’ve been alive
i heard the scalpers were trying to sell it on the different subs related to the world cup, most of them get balked and thier posts getting deleted.
Fuck FIFA and their boot licking, corrupt bullshit. Somehow I think they’ve managed to be more corrupt than any of the US based sporting organizations.
FIFA is up there as one of the most corrupt organizations out there. There’s not a US sporting org that even comes close.
Cheerleading might come close.
Bunch of pedos
Its also very dangerous and they’ve avoided being labeled a “sport” to avoid certain regulations. According to this article it accounts for over 50% of catastrophic injuries in female athletes - https://www.sportsmed.org/membership/sports-medicine-update/winter-2025/flips-falls-and-fractures-the-reality-of-cheerleading-injuries
It may have gotten better in recent years, it’s been a while since I read up on the subject.
Good point. Cheerleading and gymnastics, although idk if that’s mainly a US problem.
And the Olympics.
LOL. Liberty Media, Indy 500…
No one outside of USA has heard of either. FIFA is a global organisation.
No one outside the USA has heard of Formula 1? Ok.
Indy 500 has nothing to do with Formula 1. Different cars, different rules, different drivers, etc.
Liberty Media owns Formula One Management (FOM), the company responsible for the production of F1 as a piece of media, while the International Automobile Federation (FIA) is responsible for the rule formula itself, the stewards, marshalls, race director, etc.
So when the person said, “no one outside of the US has heard of either” they were wrong. Liberty Media certainly isn’t as well-known a name as Formula 1, but it owns Formula 1.
And Formula one is massively corrupt. F1 races are also hotbeds of human trafficking.
There may be some races, but ladies, that’s not why your husband is there.
IndyCar is run by a few billionaires who all support MAGA, and your government spends hundreds of millions of your taxpayer dollars supporting teams.
Roger Penske getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom for no reason.
Who said F1 had anything to do with indycar? Fucking read?
Indycar is broadcast in 200 countries. It’s just another big corrupt sport.
I’m not familiar with the corruption of Indy 500 and I hadn’t heard of Liberty Media until reading this comment chain. Is Liberty Media a US based org or does F1 just have some events in the US?
Forget about the corruption. Who wants to watch a bunch of guys in Nomex drive in circles for extended periods?
They have always been a corrupt to the bone org.
OK. First, FIFA booking out a heap of hotel rooms then dropping them when they realised they won’t be able to scalp them is shitty behaviour, but probably not out of the norm. Raising prices to astronomical heights is also shitty behaviour, but it’s the capitalist nation of the world so what do you expect?
The elephant in the room that got glossed over with one sentence in the article is: nobody in their right mind wants to visit the USA. The place is a fucking disaster and the chances of a foreigner getting shot, locked up or deported for pretty much no reason is so high you’ve got to be a total fuckwit to want to go there. If I was given a free ticket to the US with spending money included, I’d still be asking for a refund.
I still hope the Canada and Mexico games are completely sold out though. Watching the juxtaposition of empty “free world” stadia vs full “shit hole country” stadia is going to be glorious.
They won’t let that happen, they’ll give away tickets to homeless people to get bums on seats if that’s what it takes.
We’re all just expendable little pawns in their money games. That’s the real sport to them.
Literally bums on seats in that case.
Yeah, dumbshits may not even deport you back to your home country. You from Egypt? Maybe just put you on this plane to El Salvador. Close enough, right?
nobody in their right mind wants to visit the USA
You don’t need that many people to fill a stadium. And anyone rich enough to travel around the world for a football match isn’t going to be the type that TSA bothers.
If the World Cup has a lot of half empty stadia, I’d be happy.
It might be interesting if the Mexican and Canadian stadia were full though.
I hope Canadians grow a pair and boycott the entire thing. Fuck FIFA.
I don’t think a lot of Canadians or Mexicans are going to be able to afford to go to the games in their own countries. They may be hosting, but the ticket prices are absurd.
That will never happen. Based on some of the events and attendance of those events the World Cup will be fine. Everybody just won’t be able to charge 1000% markups.
You said everything will be fine but the entire point is that’s not true… Things might be fine for ticket sales for the venues. But that doesn’t mean they’re fine for local businesses and local taxpayers who thought that they would be generating revenue for their local communities.
And that’s the whole point, right? This is commercialized to perfection and everyone has their payouts cleanly carved out so that local communities lose. A few very large corporations win, and of course the international soccer organization is notoriously corrupt and has been, so you know that they’re getting their payouts.
In other words, this is what happens when you have monopolies and capitalism is left unchecked. The customer gets f*****, local communities get f*****, some rich people make more money, and f*** them for being such greedy assholes.
Sounds like what happens with the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.
Good.
No problem.
FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize winner will fix everything.
To be clear… you mean he’s going to determine the winning team, right?
If by “winning team” you mean “claims the trophy for himself”; yes. But don’t worry, there’s a feast of room temperature McDonald’s waiting for the victors.
only after bettin errr I mean investing heavily in a totally random team, and not the definitive winner… wink wink
Turns out people don’t want to come to your country when you harass them at the gate. Write that down, maybe we’ll remember it for later…probably not.
No qualms about all the slaves who died building the one in Qatar but if the wealthy might be inconvenienced, then it becomes an actual problem
No qualms about all the slaves who died building the one in Qatar
Also relatively unattended. In part because of the atrocious reputation of the county. But far more because it was 50⁰ C on a cool day out there.
The American Games don’t even have that excuse.
Your pedo boss made it crystal clear that it doesn’t want “aliens” in the US. Why are you all acting surprised when no “aliens” are coming? Or is the surprised because we are the “right kind of alien”?
Apparently white South Africans are the right kind.
Only if they are white and Nazi enough.
Only white ones when he had a say in it
trump abandoned the bhors after they landed in florida. musk and trump had no use for them anymore after that.
Many of us aren’t surprised at all. This outcome was obvious to us from a mile away.
or space aliens.
Maybe they can use AI to fix this. /s
It’ll be fun zooming in on the “enhanced” crowd to see all the people with three arms and Francis Bacon faces.
I know I wouldn’t want to travel here. White ladies from Canada, UK, and Australia have ended up in detention centers. They’re supposed to be the demographic MAGA pretends to want to protect.
Wasn’t the Australia one for a legitimate reason though? They messed up and admitted they were traveling to tattoo someone on a tourist visa.
You know, rounding tourists up into detention centers because they brought their work phone on their vacation is not normal behavior. Even if you want to deport them, fine - it’s your country, but detaining is not just a bit over the top.
Let them figure out where to stay and how to get home as soon as possible, then deny entry in the futre. Like a normal country that doesn’t get off on “tough” rhetoric.
They didn’t just bring their work phone, they admitted to an immigration officer they planned on performing a job in the United States. Also, other countries will detain you pending deportation as well. The US is unique because of the number of deportations and the speed they are building new facilities to deport people.
You do realize that it’s not just a single tourist who’s been detained in the US right? Did you forget this one? You can go find more as well.
And no, it is not normal to detain pending deportation unless there are specific risks with the person in question, for example if you’ve committed an actual crime or if you’re likely to not leave voluntarily.
If memory serves that was a German Tattoo artist. The Australian was deported for being pro-Palestinian.
Wtf does that matter? We’re locking people up! What’s legitimate about that unless they’ve committed terrible crimes or are a threat to the public?
Holy shit, that lady was gonna tattoo someone!
Send them home, don’t put them in jail.
There’s been more than one Australian lady.
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Soccer fans are nationalist assholes, they will show up, to watch players like Ariaga! Ariaga II! Bariaga! Aruglia! And Pizzoza!
OPEN WIDE FOR SOME SOCCER!!!
He passed the ball, passes again sigh and holds it… holds it…
HE PASSES THE BALL, PASSES AGAIN, HOLDS IT, HOLDS IT….
There are a LOT of uneducated unprincipled liminally conscious dumbasses all over the world, the US didn’t invent them. They mechanized and mass produced them, but the industry is thriving globally.
I’ve been slapping these bad boys on gas pumps all over town
That’s what happens when 70 million voters drink too much nasty Orange Kool-Aid. FIFA should move all the knock out stage matches, including the final, to Mexico and Canada.
2024 sitouts: are we a joke to you?
Hey just a general PSA; can anyone help me find my tiny violin I think I lost it somewhere
I think they found it first.
lol. it wasn’t even mine. i stole it off the interwebz.
I was looking for a different tardigrade playing a violin, and thought the first was just perfect.
