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1 posted on 05/20/2026 1:14:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Don’t need a hotel room to watch TV.


2 posted on 05/20/2026 1:17:18 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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😴😴😴😴😴😴😴


5 posted on 05/20/2026 1:20:50 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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Prices are way too high and our cities are Rat-run s___-holes.


6 posted on 05/20/2026 1:20:54 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Everybody got WAYYYYY too greedy on this one.


8 posted on 05/20/2026 1:22:41 PM PDT by johniegrad
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Gay-attle (Seattle) is hosting a team from Iran and they intend to make the occasion as gay as possible in protest to the Iran team being anti-fag and demanding from FIFA that only national flags be allowed not the filthy "pride" flag.

It shall be interesting to see what happens.

11 posted on 05/20/2026 1:27:24 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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I don’t care about soccer.


12 posted on 05/20/2026 1:29:44 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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Damn expensive! I didn’t know Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift played soccer.


13 posted on 05/20/2026 1:29:46 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk (I can only tolerate so much tolerance.)
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Everyone has their druthers, but I’d rather watch Caitlin Clark play basketball or Nelly Korda play golf.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is exclusively a men’s tournament. It will feature national teams competing in men’s football (soccer) and will take place in North America, with matches held in the United States, Mexico, and Canada


14 posted on 05/20/2026 1:30:30 PM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthbym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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What’s a World Cup. Never heard of FIFA, I know FAFO but not FIFA.


17 posted on 05/20/2026 1:31:52 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Death to the DEATH TO AMERICA, Democrats.)
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Nobody has any effing money! We’re being squeezed from all sides globally.

Let’s see: feed my family or take a trip to watch a game (that’s prolly already been decided anyhow...the black/brown team gonna win, decided three days before THE ACTUAL GAME cuz “diversity “).

Tough times


20 posted on 05/20/2026 1:38:09 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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FIFA really over played their hand.

Example: You live in Europe or South America which has a strong soccer following. Pay a couple thousand to fly to Kansas City (for example) to watch a game whose tickets are a couple thou per game. Spend another thousand for hotels and meals etc. You are into this one game for 8 to 10,000 bucks. Who has money like that save for the 1 percenters?


21 posted on 05/20/2026 1:38:18 PM PDT by llevrok (Voter apathy wins elections for liberals.)
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My guess; the tickets were way too expensive in the first place but were bought up by scalpers, only to not be able to unload them for a profit, so there’s very few buying them and looking for a hotel.

Even if they do buy a ticket and look for a hotel, the prices are probably driving people to suck up a longer drive to a game.

Greed. It’s supposed to be a game for the regular folks, cheap and easy to play or watch.


24 posted on 05/20/2026 1:43:24 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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Because soccer is boring.


32 posted on 05/20/2026 2:04:40 PM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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I doubt there’s anything for the hotels to worry about. Soccer fans are bat-sh** crazy for a boring game! If they’ll pay $2500 for a ticket, I doubt they’d sleep in the park instead of a hotel room.


37 posted on 05/20/2026 2:18:36 PM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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My bumper sticker: FOfifa!


40 posted on 05/20/2026 2:28:08 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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I would bet they did in fact sell 5 million tickets, but that many of them were bought in anticipation of being resold on Stubhub type exchanges for a profit.

Hotels and flights are a better gauge of how many people will come. Maybe many of the cities hosting games will be viewed live by people who can drive in and out for the day.

In any case, the free market drives it. Air and lodging is expensive and a bit of a hassle especially for foreigners trying to get in. I don’t know exactly where each of the major teams are playing or where the brackets will be located but it may involve 2 or 3 flights for each person who wants to come in. For example if you had to fly from Dusseldorf to London to New York to Wherever in America. That’s closing in on 24 hours just for travel.


42 posted on 05/20/2026 2:32:33 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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What did they expect when they made tickets $11,000?

CC


44 posted on 05/20/2026 2:37:48 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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If I want to see a bunch of fawns prancing around, I'll buy a copy of Bambi.

51 posted on 05/20/2026 4:10:36 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Nobody in America wants to watch soccer.


54 posted on 05/20/2026 5:30:20 PM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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Who watches this pathetic “sport”? It is a game of losers.


56 posted on 05/20/2026 5:37:06 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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