Yup, so much greed for this World Cup.
Like your husband, my friends and I, stayed up at all hours to watch the World Cup tournament every 4 years no matter what continent it was held.
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To compare World Cup final prices.
2026 USA face value tix $2k-$6730 (average resale price $11k)
2022 Qatar $206-$1600
2018 Russia $455-$1100
2014 Brazil $440-$990.
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Ditto about FIFA. But some of the tix that were originally going for $2k are now $300
Where? I can’t find any in Houston, Atlanta, Kansas or Dallas.
One of the stadia being used is in the next town over. My town’s police is warning that several streets in OUR town are being closed because of the game in the OTHER town. Keep in mind some of these streets are miles long—you could be no where near the game site and have your street closed.
Also, they are warning residents not to fly any drones as the no fly zone extends three miles from the stadium in all directions, so residents could inadvertently get a visit from the FBI and have their drone blown from the sky!
(From my user name you can guess I am referring to Gillette, err, “Boston Stadium” which is 30 miles from Boston. During a friendly last month French fans in Boston hotels somehow thought they could walk to the stadium…..um, no. Just like MetLife Stadium, in NJ, is now “New York Stadium”—good luck getting there from Manhattan.
So to conclude I will be enjoying the games from the comfort of my den, as locally the games have made life a pain in the …………..
Auburn University Friendly between Argentina (Messi played & scored!) and Iceland, General Admission - $45 ticket. Assume other Friendlies would be priced similarly.
I can’t root for Mexico. Their “superfans” continued use of a homophobic chant is appalling.
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I grew up crazy about English Soccer League and have been a fan of the English National team for many years. I am not English and I won’t pay for the World Cup tickets this year, either. My husband wanted to buy them for me knowing I have been a soccer maniac. I told him no. Not supporting scalping tickets, either.
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Telemundo is broadcasting the pre-game festivities at Toronto Stadium prior to the Canada match. It’s quite good. FOX showed only a couple of minutes before returning to the discussion about tonight’s USMNT match.
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We watched last night’s game on Telemundo. So glad that is an option for which we don’t have to pay!
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Well, I just had lunch in New Orleans with a British fan here for 2 weeks, and who’s seeing every England game. He was visiting New Orleans between games. (The friendly in Florida, and Dallas).
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My friend’s daughter is getting married tomorrow, and it was supposed to be in Boston. When they went to the appt at a hotel, the manager said, “We have that date open, but did you know that’s the first weekend of the World Cup?” Daughter kept the date but moved the wedding to Maine.
Now it appears hotels did not get the bookings they expected. Still, best not to be flying into or out of the airport, renting cars, trying to get around in cities hosting.
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$300 a ticket is still a lot when buying for multiple people. The 28 Summer Olympics in LA are following the same model. We had a spot in the first ticket draw, but didn’t buy any because of the outrageous pricing.
A fun remember when: my dad still has our ticket stubs from the 84 Olympics in LA. We saw the gold medal soccer men’s final at the Rose Bowl for $10 a ticket!
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I recall the same thing happening when the World Cup was last here in 1994. Boston hotels were expecting a bonanza, but fans did not stay in overpriced Boston hotels—they stayed in Providence, in Worcester, in Motel Six type places along the road, etc. Powers that be forget that soccer is the people’s game—for every 0.1 percenter being helicoptered in for their front row or luxury box seat, there are THOUSANDS of regular blokes who have saved up to see their country compete.
Since greed is such a driving force with FIFA nowadays, I hope hotels who doubled or tripled their room rates lose their shirts!! (We’re glad we took our Alaska cruise out of Vancouver last June instead of this year; cruise message boards were flooded with posts about folks trying to get downtown Vancouver hotel rooms so they could arrive a day or two before they sailed and found out that hotel room rates had tripled due to the World Cup)
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We were eating dinner at a restaurant last night and could see portions of the TV screens in the bar area. We were amazed how many Korean fans were at the game. All wearing red! 
We were too far from the screen to see that those were the empty seats! Oceans of them.
They should have sold those empty seats for cheap to youth soccer clubs to keep the kids interest in soccer grow.
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