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?
Next Iran wins Against murica in fifa 2026
It should be the first game. Imagine Trump trying to shut the whole thing down after a loss lol.
This article is still trying to sale the world cup to Americans. Blue dot fever is everywhere this summer. The only reason you should be traveling for the world cup is to hold up a sign on the outside calling for the arrest BB and Trump.
Good.
Hey just a general PSA; can anyone help me find my tiny violin I think I lost it somewhere
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?
only after bettin errr I mean investing heavily in a totally random team, and not the definitive winner… wink wink
I was looking to visit but then saw the ticket + hotel prices and noped out
Thanks to everyone refusing to spend money in or toward my country right now, you’re literally keeping money away from an organization trying to terrorize and imprison us or worse.
Screwing over FIFA is a nice cherry on top too.
I’m leaving the US and one of the first things I did was convert all my USD to local currency. I’m doing my best to actively extract from the US and bring it elsewhere, to hell with my home country
cuz ICE ain’t so very NICE?
It will really say something if people are no show for us world cup. It takes a lot ot keep fans at home.
Boycott the shit outta this fash cup
The Aryan came third.
Second, and by all account Luz Long was a standup guy.
Long was the first to congratulate Owens, embracing the African-American in front of Adolf Hitler. Owens was later the best man at the wedding of Long’s son.
Don’t let out of context photos dictate the narrative and warp your views.
The German was second.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1936_Summer_Olympics_–_Men’s_long_jump
Shouldn’t 2nd and 3rd be at different heights?
Most are only higher in the middle.
https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/Hamilton-Reuters.jpg
Both losers.
ist he 2nd? It would make sense for the stands to see the front side of the podium, no?
They don’t care if you or any other poors boycott, your pennies mean nothing to them. There needs to be more protestors outside the cup than audience inside it. Clog the stroads. Chant until the words of outside reality break the fantasy within.
I’m gonna give you the lemmy peace prize for this, but skip me a few cool billion first
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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.
They have always been a corrupt to the bone org.
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.
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.
The AHLA said this does not align with Fifa’s statement that more than five million tickets have been sold, external and it creates a risk that “the anticipated economic lift may fall short”.
Lol…
It’s obvious what’s happening, but it’s not as good as people are thinking.
The reason to kets are so expensive, is American reselling processes.
Scalpers ought up all the tickets immediately, and instantly relisted them for higher. New scalpers are buying those, and listing them again.
Everytime they’re resold, another cut gets taken out by Ticketmaster. And Fifa is likely getting a piece of that in addition to their original piece.
FIFA is going to make a shit ton of money. Scalpers may lose some, but what little “economic incentive” from the games won’t materialize, because we’re almost guaranteed to have a bunch of “unsold” tickets that were sold 4-5 times already.
People already there may be able to capitalize on tickets being cheap right before games start as scalpers panic, but no one will travel short notice. And once the first games air with a bunch of empty seats, people will try to wait till last minute and buy tickets. Likely getting ripped off at the event and trying to enter with fake tickets
The entire thing is going to turn into a giant cluserfuck, and that’s without ICE running around like they’re almost guaranteed to.
You couldn’t pay me enough to show up in the general vicinity of one of these games
Wouldn’t it be fun if the scalpers would end up with loads of unsold tickets?
If they get resold 5 times, that’s four scalpers making money and one losing…
That’s not gonna solve the problem, especially since Ticketmaster offers up tickets early to large volume buyers and even reserves huge blocks for them.
Ticketmaster doesn’t give a fuck what the person who sits there actually paid or if the seat is empty
Because everytime it resells, they get the same percentage of an ever growing number.
The product is ticket sales, so they sell the same ticket as many times as they can.
Empty seats won’t solve anything. And if it keeps happening it’ll end up like airplanes where they just sell someone else a new ticket at a discount and profit off the seat again.
We need to actually fix it, and not just for the Cup
Everytime they’re resold, another cut gets taken out by Ticketmaster.
Yep, this is why the scalper issue will never get resolved, because they also benefit from it. They will literally do every convoluted way to “prevent” scalping except the actual solution: resales can only be done at original ticket price or lower, and no reselling fees go to ticketmaster.
That was pretty much how things worked for Ticketmaster in Norway when I had someone bail on going to a festival we were planning on attending together, as I recall. So it can be addressed, just probably need to be in a country with a functional government and regulations.
I’d even be fine with resale prices limited to original sale price plus a nominal FLAT fee for ticket master.
Why should Ticketmaster get anything from a resale?!
TM itself can fuck off, but a ticket supplier is providing a service, and transferring tickets is part of that service. Unless the seller is literally just handing physical tickets off to a buyer, the mediating service is using resources to facilitate the transfer, which costs them money.
How much does
UPDATE tickets SET holder = WHERE holder = AND ticket_id =cost?That depends, how comfortable are you with SQL injection directly from the webpage with no other security measures?
Would be funny if the only people attending the games were the last scalpers left holding the bag like ‘eh may as well’
Seems like a good way to launder money
Yep, ai got tickets direct from FIFA. Two decent seats (tier 2). They cost me $450 each. They are reselling for $1200+. I am not selling but hope the scalpers lose.
Ha. Those will be $30 when they need to pack the stands for TV.
How does that work if the tickets are owned by scalpers?
good luck… tons of “at cost” tickets are not selling
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
Many of us aren’t surprised at all. This outcome was obvious to us from a mile away.
I’ve been slapping these bad boys on gas pumps all over town
