As an American, you would have to be so fucking stupid to come here for this.
2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices
Submitted 13 hours ago by NarrativeBear@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
AreaKode@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
zout@fedia.io 11 hours ago
Good luck seeing the game then. "No return ticket? That's suspicious, you won't be allowed to enter."
Furbag@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
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.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
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.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
You can go see it in Mexico instead, and get picked off the streets by a cartels instead.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Or just come to Canada and die in a fire that was set by the mafia in your egressless airbnb.
fubarx@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Don’t forget the Ticketmaster fee.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
FIFA is one of the most corrupt, rotten organisations on the planet.
falseWhite@programming.dev 13 hours ago
Alongside the current US administration.
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Well then they’ve found the perfect country
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
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.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Ending up on an ICE concentration camp: priceless
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
And for everything else there’s MasterCard
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Between the ticket prices and the, ah, challenging political climate in the US, I am really curious what game attendance will be.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Packed. I sadly have no doubt.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Yeah, then ICE will raid the events.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
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.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
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.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
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.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 hours ago
I’m not even gonna watch it for free in TV
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Remember the 1936 Berlin Games?
iirc the government went out of its way to be accommodating to all attendees.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Hitler cared about world perception of the Reich. Trump isn’t looking to earn adoration and praise, he thinks it’s his due.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
philpo@feddit.org 8 hours ago
For the cheapest ticket you could have flown to the (excellent) womans European championship, got a CAT1 ticket,see Geneva and fly back.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You won the internet today.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 12 hours ago
The 2022 World Cup was literally built by slaves. It has a way of keeping prices down.
j5906@feddit.org 12 hours ago
2014 Germany for the final at category 1 was 990$, less than half, accounting for inflation and generously rounding this would be 1400$.
njm1314@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s not like those savings were passed down to the consumer. They were pocketed by corrupt officials.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Slave labour, chief architect Albert Speer Jr, it was reminiscent.
taiyang@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
People who want to go there deserve to be scammed into bankruptcy.
plyth@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Same price for games in Mexico and the US. That’s not good for Mexicans.
50MYT@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The RWC (rugby world cup) after this in Australia will have $20 tickets for kids…
vane@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Tariffs
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
It’s because of the tariffs.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
How many people died again for the one in Qatar?
Think America will match it?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t think even the MAGAs can fuck with OSHA
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Ir’s a new world, designed for and by rich people. They plan to replace most of us with AI and automation, and want us to fight each to the death until 70% of the population is gone.
Korne127@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Well, duh, no one wanted to watch it in fucking Qatar.
skepticalifornia@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Good point!
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Qatar has 300,000 citizens. The other 2.3 million are migrant slaves.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Is this that Akufo league I’ve been hearing about?
aquinteros@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
also you get to be deported ! what a shit show