HE could say tickets are selling fast for some games or something generic. Or not mention sales at all. But they are going to sellout for all games.
The World Cup has had different types of fans over the decades. Euro videos have nothing to do with the World Cup.
The French and Portuguese fans and most Europeans overall didn’t go to Qatar or Russia or Brazil (even with the cheaper match tickets and free visas), yet you expect they’d somehow show up in the US? Two of those were much easier travel from Europe and all three are likely cheaper overall than traveling in the US. Which recent World Cups have you been to? You seem to be have experienced them in a different reality than I did. Further, your dismissal of American soccer fans is uncalled for. It’s not the 1980s anymore and there are millions of passionate and knowledgeable soccer fans living in the US who are ready for the World Cup and willing to buy the tickets at any cost. Have you been to the Gold Cup in the US? Copa America? Even friendlies of teams like Colombia will produce scenes like what you see in your Euro championship videos. It’s almost as if more fans show up to matches that are closer to their home.
I am NOT 'dismissing' American football fans..........however the important part of your statement is underlined - I will try and make it clear I'm sure 'American' football fans will be wonderful at any games involving the US HOWEVER we do not want games between France and Portugal to be watched by a majority of wealthy US Corportates. I think these guys 'touched' on this issue only today:- Particularly from around minute 2 to minute 5, watch if you can. As you can see historically England has had more fans than any other nation attending world cups, they would have tens of thousands attend a World Cup in the US too..............if the US had reasonably priced tickets and didn't have a certain orange buffoon in charge. To quote one of the presenters of the (attached) - 'this World Cup is not about the fans, this is a 'tourist' World Cup, they don't care who takes the seats inside the stadium, as long as the stadiums are near to capacity and people are paying a ridiculous price for the ticket' And its that that will ruin the World Cup.
I am curious, how do you guarantee that a match is not going to be filled with rich people and corporate types in the United States? You going to ban anyone who is rich from attending games and just hand out tickets to people in Paris, Lyon, Porto and Lisbon? Make it make sense please. I am trying my best to understand.
Why are you insisting that poor, regular European fans would’ve filled up the stadiums in the US if only the tickets were cheaper, when they didn’t show up in Doha or Russia, which had cheaper tickets, visa-free entry, and easier (or at least comparable) travel? I again have to ask: which recent World Cups are these views based on? The crowd for nearly every World Cup match anywhere is a mix of diehard supporters of the teams playing, passionate soccer fans from all over the world, corporate sponsors and their guests, and locals who may not care about the outcome (or even soccer) but want to be part of the global spectacle. All of those in varying percentages depending on the city, round, and teams playing, among other factors. You clearly don’t understand the soccer or live sports environment in the US if you think a $200-300 ticket is going to lead only “corporates” in the stadium. That’s a cheap ticket for a major event in the US that any soccer fan will find a way to afford.
Perhaps you should actually look at the links I've posted! Incidentally 30'000 England fans went to Russia - yes 30'000 to a hostile country! And as for Qatar! Well that is just another example of FIFA greed at the fans expense! Go look at the links I've posted as a reminder at what the World Cup should be. If whats happening is as you put it 'something I don't understand' because its just 'the live sports environment in the US' then you can stick it! FIFA needs to give the World Cup to a country that realises football is about the fans.......the real ones that stand on the terraces in the cold and rain of a Glasgow January. France v Portugal should be full of the people that support and attend Porto, Marseille and the like.
Right, I am sure there would be full capacity crowds of "real fans" in the UK for matches like Cape Verde - Saudi Arabia and DR Congo - Uzbekistan.
Full crowd or not the tickets would be sent to Saudi Arabia and the Congo FA's first:- Group Stage Allocation: For the opener in Dallas (June 17), England received 4,022 tickets. Low-Cost Tickets: Amid backlash over high prices, FIFA introduced a £45 ($60) category for supporters, with the FA receiving between 539 and 632 of these low-cost tickets per group match, with the highest number for the Panama game. Knockout Stages: The allocation for later stages is expected to be lower, with reports suggesting roughly 3,000 to 3,500 tickets for potential quarter-final and semi-final, and up to 3,900 for a potential final. Take-up Rate: While group stage tickets were oversubscribed, high costs (with tickets in some categories priced over £3,000) have led to concerns that many tickets in the knockout phase allocation may go unused. FIFA greed - killing the World Cup experience! For comparison - the competing teams for the FA cup final get 50'000 tickets and the FA gets lambasted as greedy ******** for this number!
What nonsense. I've only attended one world cup and that was 20 years ago. Guess how many tickets FIFA allocated to each playing confederation. It was 8%. Have a guess how many they have allocated in 2026?
And even at 8%, many countries typically struggle to sell out their full allocation. The idea that thousands of global supporters from all countries travel to World Cups is a myth. A few thousand in the sections behind the goal is the average. And for some, barely any travel at all.
Its not, I gave you the links, I suggest you go and look at them. Fact is 3'000 tickets is a pathetic amount of tickets for an England game, I assume the stadium holds about 20 times that amount! And the reason being? Money of course............so we will get a World Cup game with an atmosphere akin to bloody Wimbledon! (and I mean the tennis not Wimbledon FC!)
Ah these Europeans! Haven’t you learned anything this week? A World Cup is what Donald Trump says it is. I suggest you guys stay under the radar… or you might end up being the 51st state(not that there would be anything wrong with that).
The reverse is also true: the allocation each country gets is not an upper limit on the number of nationals of that country attending a game.
2030 will definitely be better overall. 2026 still has the potential to be good too, I guess there's always diaspora anyways which was a big factor in '94 as well. Latam games should be fine for the most part, not so sure about the matches involving teams from Europe/Africa/Asia.
There you go, the VP no less is stating that this needs to be discussed. From the BBC 2015112410994979184 is not a valid tweet id
Politicians will talk about pulling out of the World Cup but they won't actually do anything. It is just posturing and point scoring. There is no benefit to them of actually going through with it. If anything Washington would treat them more harshly. By talking about it they look like they're thinking of tough actions. Talk is cheap. Pulling out of the World Cup would be deeply unpopular amongst a large section of their own population. It would also anger the players, who want to play, and the national associations, which make money out of it. There would be knock on impacts on sponsorship and other income streams. It just isn't going to happen. Watch what politicians do, not what they say.
Honestly sometimes I just have to laugh! Trump - "we are going to put %100 tariffs on the EU unless Germany send a team and try their bestest"! Also "we are going to send our super duper greatest in the whole wide world soldiers to invade the inferior human Germans just like we do in every US film and TV show, unless they come to me and kiss my feet while whistling the US national anthem".................that will 'show em'! LOL
Yup. Stay away and watch women's soccer as they wear bikinis. # Always listen to Blatter's awesome ideas.