FIFA is one of the most corrupt, rotten organisations on the planet.
Alongside the current US administration.
We bought a few tickets. I have always wanted to go to a world cup match. We have no idea who is playing. We can’t resell the tickets if the teams don’t match. It is so fucking stupid. My wife got kinda tricked as she knows I always wanted to go. Fuck FIFA and USA soccer for being compliant.
Can you explain more about not being able to resell if the teams don’t match?
You buy tickets to watch your favorite country play in the finals. They get booted in the semifinals. You’re stuck watching two teams you dgaf about.
And on top off that FIFA is also selling NFTs that might get you the opportunity to potentially buy a ticket.
The whole process is bordering on gambling.
Your are gambling buying tickets for a match between two teams that might not play, and gambling buying NFTs to be chosen to be put in a draw to buy tickets.
Presale tickets are for time and location. They are sold to a degree already. The groups are not even made. The teams haven’t even qualified. The only ones that are, are US, Mexico an Canada. If you want one of those in presale, you had to buy for 4 - 8 games, high price locations. It is so stupid and greedy. You can’t not by terms resell them using any service. You could theoretically resell them directly person to person, but that is not easy.
Understood, thank you. Looks like the jacked up the original prices to resell levels.
That’s a lot to invest for sure.
Between the ticket prices and the, ah, challenging political climate in the US, I am really curious what game attendance will be.
Packed. I sadly have no doubt.
Yeah, then ICE will raid the events.
I am so done with these enormous events. Money fucks up everything. FIFA, IOC, Formula 1, (any other sufficiently large international sports organization, tbh), Eurovision, they all suck. Corrupt leadership in the pockets of the worst states: Russia, Qatar, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Trump’s regime, France 😉
Ending up on an ICE concentration camp: priceless
And for everything else there’s MasterCard
Which will get blocked, because you bought a doujin where the girl had cat ears, which is obviously “bestiality”,
so Visa and Mastercard’s monopoly wouldn’t get challenged by the Trump regime, which seeks to ban pornographybecause of a relatively unknown Australian feminist groupwith ties to christian fundamentalists and other pro-censorship groups.
the most depressing part is how small this page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-FIFA_international_football
This makes me want to go watch the 2029 Island Games on IoM just out of spite
As an American, you would have to be so fucking stupid to come here for this.
At least you only need a one-way ticket. Your return flight will be at no cost to you. Although the destination is not negotiable.
Good luck seeing the game then. “No return ticket? That’s suspicious, you won’t be allowed to enter.”
Not only is this a ripoff, but traveling to the United States right now from literally any foreign country is a terrible idea.
If you get picked up off the street by the secret police, there’s nobody who can come to your aid at that point.
I’m not even gonna watch it for free in TV
That’s fantastic, I wouldn’t have come anyway.
