Boycotting the World Cup

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why Canada and America are host nations. Soccer isn’t a huge event in either country. It should be Mexico as the host. The three nation idea is dumb

The idea is to grow the sport in north america. marketing is everything

Our best athletes are steered into football and basketball because they are more aesthetically pleasing to watch as a fan and therefore more marketable and more profitable sports. The World Cup is a fantastic global event but it won't change the fact that soccer/futbol is less marketable than football and basketball.

DP. It's a good thing you don't work in marketing or advertising.

When the best athletes in the US start choosing "soccer", soccer will become marketable in the US and the US will be able to compete for World Cup titles.

The US already does and has won World Cup soccer. France 2019

this is about Men's soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of packed U.S. stadiums and massive displays of passion from traveling supporters. The world has turned up for the World Cup. I’ve watched every televised match but the Australian overnight one.

Are you serious? The US v. Paraguay game had tons of empty seats.

Also there was a podcast recently that talked about pricing and they interviewed fans in Argentina. Many were flying here but could not afford a game.

Cost of attending a game is a problem. Enthusiasm and empty seats, not so much.

I didn't say it was. Cost is THE issue, I agree.

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effing embarrassment

https://bsky.app/profile/cardonebrian.bsky.social/post/3moga2b53722t

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I’m still waiting for the boycott. When is it supposed to happen?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting for the boycott. When is it supposed to happen?

For me, it’s a forced boycott. My son really wanted to go but the tickets were just out of our price range.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting for the boycott. When is it supposed to happen?

For me, it’s a forced boycott. My son really wanted to go but the tickets were just out of our price range.

People here say there are empty seats everywhere. That should mean seats will be available for cheap the day of the matches.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting for the boycott. When is it supposed to happen?

For me, it’s a forced boycott. My son really wanted to go but the tickets were just out of our price range.

People here say there are empty seats everywhere. That should mean seats will be available for cheap the day of the matches.

I agree, if there isn't a market for tics at their current prices, the prices will comes down. I'm still baffled by how much people are currently paying; then again I was baffled by how many thousands people were shelling out to see The Eras Tour. There are some maxed out credit cards out there.

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Just curious, given the black, brown and Asian athletes, how the white supremacists are doing with this?

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Why would tourists travel to the USA knowing they are subject to immediate harassment and detention based on their social media profiles. Nope. I’m taking bets that the 250th anniversary events will also be a bust. Deranged Donnie touched both events, and everyone knows that ETTD.

World Cups gave been held in many locations that were globally unpopular due to poor leadership at the time but yet the love of sport and nationality prevails in modern times. Same could be said for the Olympics. Remember Sochi? Russian hotels were booked.

I remember Sochi. What I do not remember is Putin threatening potential travelers with their state police and the confiscation and search of their telephones and laptops for the travelers' possible jailing. What I don't recall is Putin threatening the athletes to think twice before coming to the US and trying to get the Olympic Committee to ban their participation, as Trump has threatened Iranian athletes. And I would bet in the polymarket that you, too, do not remember such threats.

Idk what P said, but I would never travel to Russia. They love to lock people up for little to no reason. Yes, I realize the US now does the same.

The point is that even authoritarian countries clean up their act for foreigners when they host elite sporting events. Trump doesn't seem to understand that. That is why foreigners are reluctant to travel to the US - even for the World Cup.

Putin threw an American basketball player in jail.

It was a third tier player in women’s basketball and far from an “elite” sporting event.

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Why would tourists travel to the USA knowing they are subject to immediate harassment and detention based on their social media profiles. Nope. I’m taking bets that the 250th anniversary events will also be a bust. Deranged Donnie touched both events, and everyone knows that ETTD.

World Cups gave been held in many locations that were globally unpopular due to poor leadership at the time but yet the love of sport and nationality prevails in modern times. Same could be said for the Olympics. Remember Sochi? Russian hotels were booked.

I remember Sochi. What I do not remember is Putin threatening potential travelers with their state police and the confiscation and search of their telephones and laptops for the travelers' possible jailing. What I don't recall is Putin threatening the athletes to think twice before coming to the US and trying to get the Olympic Committee to ban their participation, as Trump has threatened Iranian athletes. And I would bet in the polymarket that you, too, do not remember such threats.

Idk what P said, but I would never travel to Russia. They love to lock people up for little to no reason. Yes, I realize the US now does the same.

I have a family member who's very involved in Olympics coverage and has been for decades that took a hiatus to avoid all the work trips to Sochi. Which makes sense to me, but now we're contrasting people avoiding a sh*th*le to avoiding a supposed tourism destination like the US. It took a concerted effort to make that happen in a years time.

Hahaha such irony. Also how is Quatar better

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Why would tourists travel to the USA knowing they are subject to immediate harassment and detention based on their social media profiles. Nope. I’m taking bets that the 250th anniversary events will also be a bust. Deranged Donnie touched both events, and everyone knows that ETTD.

World Cups gave been held in many locations that were globally unpopular due to poor leadership at the time but yet the love of sport and nationality prevails in modern times. Same could be said for the Olympics. Remember Sochi? Russian hotels were booked.

Russia didn’t harass the fans, at least not at event.
And it wasn’t so anti west back then.
Russia was ok for a layperson before 2022.

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Houston is both flooded and hellishly humid yet has sold out World Cup games. There's definitely no boycott.

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Anonymous wrote:Just curious, given the black, brown and Asian athletes, how the white supremacists are doing with this?

You mean the coastal elite leftists like Newsom? I don’t think they really care.

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Anonymous wrote:Houston is both flooded and hellishly humid yet has sold out World Cup games. There's definitely no boycott.

I don't doubt that every seat will be filled for most games. The problem for me is how ticket prices have excluded many middle and lower middle class fans from being in those seats. That exclusiveness has not always been the case in World Cups in the past.

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Anonymous wrote:Houston is both flooded and hellishly humid yet has sold out World Cup games. There's definitely no boycott.

I don't doubt that every seat will be filled for most games. The problem for me is how ticket prices have excluded many middle and lower middle class fans from being in those seats. That exclusiveness has not always been the case in World Cups in the past.

This is now the narrative shift that the boycott didn’t happen - and never was going to happen. At least nobody has come up with an incredibly dumb argument as to why the ticket prices are the orange man’s fault. Maybe they have and I haven’t seen it