• Bakkoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      16 days ago

      It’s insane. Literally insane. I’m a normal world it would be a joke and they would be laughed out. There’s just so much fuckery going on in the background with deals and bribes. That’s all it’s good for now. Making certain people money. It’s always been a massive drain on resources

  • GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    15 days ago

    Why would you overpay just so you could be thrown in a concentration camp by the orange pig’s personal goonsquad.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    16 days ago

    FIFA and scalpers can go screw themselves.

    Meanwhile, resale platforms such as StubHub and SeatGeek — and FIFA’s own marketplace — also show thousands of tickets on sale.

    Even President Trump said he wouldn’t pay those prices. “I would certainly like to be there, but I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest with you,” Trump told the New York Post in a recent interview.

    And on this:

    “The hope or bet — for FIFA is that once the matches start — and the greatest players in the world compete for the most prestigious prize of them all, the sport as business lens will fade into the background and the World Cup will be seen and experienced as the enduring global institution that it is,” Shields says. “We shall see.”

    No way. You can’t separate the two anymore. The pretense of “that income mostly benefitting the sport” is kinda laughable now.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    15 days ago

    Not tryna dox myself but I was able to get a ticket to the Argentina vs Iceland warm up match held 2 days ago in Auburn because Auburn University sold the tickets directly for $78, and they still didn’t sell out the stadium, so you could buy tickets for as low as $40 from resellers.

    And they played Messi too so its not like it was some B squad match, they all actually showed up.

    If Auburn couldn’t sell out the stadium for such a game, there’s no way FIFA is filling any of the world cup matches except for maybe semis and finals.

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      I’m not sure you can really compare those two games.

      It’s a litrle like the world series versus spring training.

      Even if the second one coats 10% of the first, there’s way more demand for the first.

      I mean I’m underselling with “spring training”, but still. Are those 2 events really comparable?

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    17 days ago

    Pretty soon the only ones watching anything will be the Space Billionaires. /s