Any guesses on the attendance on Sunday?

[G Enriquez]

I hope there's at least 30,000 fans.

[Joel Goodson]

A couple of days ago I heard that it was at 28,000 pre-sale.

[Rise and Fire]

Over 30,000 sold according to the US Soccer e-mail sent out the other day.

[Via_Chicago]

That's pretty decent for a short-notice event, but c'mon, this is Brazil! However...in the fine people of Chicago's defense, the tickets are way overpriced.

[shooter6065]

I will say 35000..........not great for a match against Brazil.

But you have to wonder why they scheduled this game on the first NFL Sunday of the new season. The match starts at 3:00.....know what time the Bears start at San Diego? 3:00

Everybody in town wants to see the Bears

[BiLLyHiLLo07]

Yeah it's the first day of football season.. so Their isnt going to be too many people there

[dncm]

The Brazil-Mexico match in Foxboro on Wednesday is rumored to be already at 45,000 and if good weather they are expecting a sellout (63,000)

[JohnR]

Chicago Tribune said 40,000 yesterday, presumably got that estimate from the Soldier Field folks.

I would certain expect Brazil-Mexico to outdraw Brazil-U.S.

[FW__]

I'm going to say 42,000. There are commercials on multiple English channels in Chicago (ESPN, ESPN 2, and the local ABC affiliates) and I heard a commercial on ESPN radio here in Chicago too.

On the down side I went to the Chicago Soocer Store yesterday and was in line behind 6 high school kids buying Brazil gear. I really hope there aren't 30,000 Brazil "fans" who probably couldn't even locate Brazil on a map but root for them because its the "cool" thing to do.

[JohnR]

I really hope there aren't 30,000 Brazil "fans" who probably couldn't even locate Brazil on a map but root for them because its the "cool" thing to do.

It'll be 25,000 such "fans" for Brazil, and about 15,000 for the U.S.

[ironduke2010]

It'll be 25,000 such "fans" for Brazil, and about 15,000 for the U.S.

i just hope the sams section doesn't have too many of these brazil "fans".

[mrecint]

Yeah it's the first day of football season.. so Their isnt going to be too many people there

Thank god my team played Thursday then!!! GO COLTS!

I say 48,000 there by kickoff...

[jp20077002]

I say 45,000. And I'll be a TRUE Brazil fan on the stands!

[wonko389]

Am I the only one who wants to choke people who root for teams they have zero connection to? Being a New Yorker in Jacksonville is tough seeing all the floridians wearing Red Sox and Pats gear when they dont even know what states besides Massachusetts are in New England (wait, you mean Boston isnt its own state?). I had one guy try to explain to me that New York is actually a part of New England and so Jets fans should root for both. Its one thing if you are watching Brazil vs Argentina and you decide to root for Brazil when you have no connection to either, but when you root against your home side its complete crap.

Lets go US

[FW__]

Am I the only one who wants to choke people who root for teams they have zero connection to? Being a New Yorker in Jacksonville is tough seeing all the floridians wearing Red Sox and Pats gear when they dont even know what states besides Massachusetts are in New England (wait, you mean Boston isnt its own state?). I had one guy try to explain to me that New York is actually a part of New England and so Jets fans should root for both. Its one thing if you are watching Brazil vs Argentina and you decide to root for Brazil when you have no connection to either, but when you root against your home side its complete crap.

Lets go US

These people really get under my skin. I don't allow my students to wear NY Yankees hats in class unless they're actually from NY or they have some connection.

[TimB4Last]

These people really get under my skin. I don't allow my students to wear NY Yankees hats in class unless they're actually from NY or they have some connection.

Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? but who takes off his eye from a comet when that breaks out? Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? but who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world? No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

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Paid attendance?

[FC Uptown]

Do I sense another "Azteca North" type game (like the one vs Mexico)? Come on US fans!

[Adam Zebrowski]

46,666 as the late hispanic walk-up makes the on day purchase windows very busy

[wonko389]

Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? but who takes off his eye from a comet when that breaks out? Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? but who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world? No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

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Paid attendance?

I fail to see what John Donne has to do with this. Why dont we act like Robert Jordan from For Whom the Bell Tolls and kill the fascists.

BTW, I hate the people who are bandwagon Yanks fans too.

[TimB4Last]

I fail to see what John Donne has to do with this. Why dont we act like Robert Jordan from For Whom the Bell Tolls and kill the fascists.

BTW, I hate the people who are bandwagon Yanks fans too.

I sleep not day or night

From the bells of the church adjoining, I am daily remembered of my burial in the funerals of others

Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die

The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am dead

Not having anticipated Hemingway, Donne was simply expressing the thought that we are all connected. As we are, bandwagon Yankee fans included.

Kill, hate? I guess I'd better keep my distance from you, connected or not.