Misc Sports Thread

[Arcc]

The reasons aren’t hard to find. Anti-American sentiment. Fear of border crossings. The Iran war driving up oil prices and airfares. And tickets priced into the stratosphere, with finals seats hitting $10,990 a pop.

Logic says one of these holds much more weight than the others. I wonder which one it could be...

 

[YetAnotherRDUGuy]

I just did some searching on World Cup sales and found a LOT of griping about FIFA charging way higher ticket prices for this one, despite having more games and more supply due to expanding from 32 to 48 teams.

I found very little about geopolitics surprisingly. I’m sure it doesn’t help, but it doesn’t look like it’s the main factor.

 

[chase5ash]

I just did some searching on World Cup sales and found a LOT of griping about FIFA charging way higher ticket prices for this one, despite having more games and more supply due to expanding from 32 to 48 teams.

I found very little about geopolitics surprisingly. I’m sure it doesn’t help, but it doesn’t look like it’s the main factor.

I was able to get a couple of tickets at face value after jumping through round after round of convoluted lotteries and queues, and that still ran me close to a thousand dollars.

Tickets on the official FIFA resale market are listed for upwards of 10x face value in some cases and FIFA are pocketing 15% from both the buyer and seller. It’s a disgrace.

 

[SD]

I just did some searching on World Cup sales and found a LOT of griping about FIFA charging way higher ticket prices for this one, despite having more games and more supply due to expanding from 32 to 48 teams.

I found very little about geopolitics surprisingly. I’m sure it doesn’t help, but it doesn’t look like it’s the main factor.

Maybe it's just on a larger scale soccer isn't that popular in this country

 

[YetAnotherRDUGuy]

Maybe it's just on a larger scale soccer isn't that popular in this country

That's true and I hear ya, but look at the 94 World Cup hosted here. That one was expanded too and still sold out everything very quickly. A lot of people were shocked at the time. Soccer was pretty much dead in this country till then.

 

[SD]

That's true and I hear ya, but look at the 94 World Cup hosted here. That one was expanded too and still sold out everything very quickly. A lot of people were shocked at the time. Soccer was pretty much dead in this country till then.

Are you a soccer fan? Id really like to understand the allure of it.