Why are the US even hosting this event? They don’t care about football and seemingly they don’t care about tourism anymore.
The World Cup has long since been a money grubbing exercise by FIFA.
Previously in Russia, Qatar… Saudi Arabia coming up soon. USA feels on brand in this crowd.
It’s the only logical place. Trump won the FIFA peace prize. It’s only fair they hold the world cup in his country.
The answer is always $
it’s not gonna go well
Boycott the World Cup, don’t watch on tv or in person. Don’t spend a penny on this shit show.
lol fuck the world cup
This world cup reminds me of the Berlin Olympic games
Compared to Canada 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, where your event ticket got you on the busses or Skytrain for free.
We’re sorry, WHAT?!
Only $80?
World cup fans are supporting Fascism so fuck them into poverty.
Hm, I wonder how the current prices compare to the 1994 prices, that was the last time USA hosted the FIFA World Cup. There was also the 1996 Olympics.
Stay far away from Kansas City. It’s the most car dependent city out of all the hosts. And all the drivers are shit.
Yeah, don’t come here. It’s shit.
I can’t speak for other countries, but at the world cup in Germany, your ticket to the stadium was your ticket for public transit, and it was all inclusive.
*Laughs in American
It’s a lack of joined up thinking is what it is. Surely the US want as many people as possible at the tournaments (or at least city officials do, it’s anyone’s guess what the admin think is going on), the amount of money tourists pay to stay in a hotel will far exceed the amount of money they pay on these over inflated public transit tickets. So make public transit affordable, so they actually come to the event, stay in the hotel, and spend money in the local economy.
Or you can try and price gouge them on a bus ticket and they won’t come. Now you’ve made no money at all, well done.
The US’s problem isn’t that it’s a hyper capitalist country, it’s a hyper capitalist country run by MBA business study incompetents who only care about chasing short term profits at the expense of long-term profits.
You just tell us if you need a socialized hug, okay?
Laughs in $22 train ticket from Sydney Airport to Central Station.
Remember to protect your social services from the neoliberal plague or this could be you.
I think this deserves a chuckle at most. I visited Sydney with 2 other people, and the train was literally going within 250 metres of the hotel we booked.
Didn’t take the train because a cab worked out cheaper, absolutely ridiculous.
Public-private partnerships, not even once…
The airports can be far away from the city center. I recently paid 10 euros to get to the airport by bus but it was 1h drive. Where I live it’s more like 15 minutes and it’s about 2 euros.
About 40 years too late for that advice. 😒
It’s never too late
Vote
I think it was the same in Russia, it included the visa and public transit, or maybe you could buy a package that included all? 🤔
I think Russia even included long distance public transport, that wasn’t included in Germany if I remember correctly.
Yes you are right, I just asked my friend who attended
You displayed a fifa credential on a lanyard and you could ride long distance trains between host cities and local public transit for free
I dislike FIFA and Russia, but this is how it should be done.
Didn’t it also include special accommodations for homosexuals?
Yes, the US thought of this as a great idea and made the same for everyone with a slightly foreign appearance.
They often do that for large conventions in Germany in general. At least at a city level.
FIFA, in their infinite wisdom, made the decision to have all the parking around MetLife Stadium used for (paid) fan and merch space. MetLife is primarily built for car traffic, so this is a disaster waiting to happen. Yet another example of their greed and hubris. This was so poorly thought out.
Putting any games at the Medowlands was just dumb as fuck. There are plenty of stadiums in urban centers which would have been great sites and already have lodging, dining, and entertainment infrastructure.
Same with Boston. The games are being played in Foxboro, next to a strip mall, a train ride away from the city (they’ll have the new platform finished by June 12th, promise)
Absolutely, these are really dumb places to pick.
Did FIFA decide that?
Just wait until you hear what country you have to travel to.
Has it been renamed to Trumplandia yet?
Magastan.
It’s been Dumfukistan since 2016.
“Country”
“Cuntery”
These costs should be borne by the organization that is earning money out of these events, which is FIFA. It should not always be the host cities that take on all the expenses,” Gogishvili said, noting the soccer body’s expected $13 billion revenue from 2023-26.
Huge events like this and the Olympics cost local communities a ton of money.
Have they heard of tax?
And possibly a lot of costs on unused big new shiny infrastructure after the event.
All the World Cup games are being played in NFL stadiums in the US and existing soccer stadiums in Canada and Mexico. As far as I know there isn’t much new infrastructure being built for this one. The Olympics, on the other hand, have an obscene amount of specialized infrastructure that gets built and is typically abandoned after the games.
While that might be that case for this world
incup, it’s not always like that.
