2026 World Cup - General Discussion & Non-USA teams thread
- Thread starter Tom McAndrew
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Quite upset about the WC ticket prices. I scouted prices for the Philadelphia games, and the least costly was Ivory Coast vs. Curacao. (And) to tell the truth, I don't even know where Curacao is. $~430. / Ticket, and those are the cheap seats. With travel, toll, food this would be a `$1000+ trip.
I understand there have been many complaints about the gouging with food, drinks, and concessions as well.
How do they fill the seats?
I understand there have been many complaints about the gouging with food, drinks, and concessions as well.
How do they fill the seats?
Check out Stubhub…they’ve got seats under $300 for Ivory Coast/Curacao, and prices should only drop from here.
Australia-Turkey was an interesting one…Turkey dominated the possession and spent the game controlling the ball just outside the box and either firing shots into traffic that were blocked, or playing crosses that Australia headed away. They are huge and won’t beat them through the air. Good result for US I think.
You could fit their entire population into Estadio Azteca and MetLife Stadium combined and have over 5,000 empty seats.
Being of mostly German heritage, die Nationalelf is my second team. Also, my Dortmund boys are leading your Gooners today 2-1.
Not that Curaçao had any chance in this game, but that penalty at the end of the half is the reason people laugh at this sport.
LOL, you lost me on that one. That was an easy call that almost any ref would make, provided they were in position to see it. And if they weren't, then VAR would have picked it up.
I guess YMMV, but there was zero pushback from the Curacao players on this trip. Them’s the rules, don’t trip players in the box. I don’t know what else to say.
Good rule, but I would be too busy counting fingers to be of any use on the field.
Apparently, Havertz can’t count to ten either.
My daughter was the keeper, made for some really agonizing moments for me, I’d pace the stands. One time I showed up five minutes late to a match and I see that my daughter’s playing forward (because they were playing a pushover). I join the other parents in the stands. Everyone’s staring at me, no hellos.
“She scored, didn’t she?”
“Yeah, and you missed it.”
“I suck as a parent.”
My daughter was livid, signing furiously to me at halftime while the other parents were laughing their butts off.
My first exposure to world-class soccer was when I’d see Johan Cryuff playing for the Washington Diplomats at RFK, back in the late seventies. He was really really an eye-opener. My friends and I would go up to the deserted upper deck and pass around joints. Good times.