>inb4 contrarians/tards/zommies pretend Qatar was good
nothing could possibly be worse than qatar
probably hard to be worse than qatar. both qatar and russia had lots of empty seats at games. but since the average /sp/ posters doesnt speak or read arabic or russian they werent able to follow the local news in the same way as this world cup.
>>154915586Including this year, 4 of the last 6 cups will be complete shit. With only 06 and 14 being good. SA and Qatar are F- locations.
>>154915586yeah, amerisharts and canadians somehow have even less soul than a literal plastic sandigger desert country
>>154915586>sport for poor people>jack up the prices>be shocked when no one goes
>>154915586The only time I hear about the WC is from this board. lol lmao
>>154915586Yes
>>154915586I hope so they destroyed the event
One thing qatar was good was timezone. This year it is shit.
>>154915586Think I’m gonna go to a game in Atlanta. Eyeing that round of 16 game since the semifinal there is stupid expensive. Wondering if holding off on buying tickets is the play or if they’ll spike closer to the game…
>>154915797So soccer is for you then?
>>154915586Americans don’t care about world cup they shouldn’t host
Has it actually been lucrative for any city ever?I'd guess some European cities with the entire infrastructure already in place made some plus usually it's purely a prestige thing
The standard ticket price to watch spain in the group phase is 400€ against cape verde and saudi arabia, 500 against uruguay. 5500€ for the final. Game's gone, no poorfags allowed in
>>154916994Maybe back when there were basically zero requirements and FIFA didn't hoard all the main revenue streams for themselves. Now, not a chance. Even if you don't spend a cent on infrastructure.
>>154915760they should've just let Mexico host it again, footballing country, great stadium atmosphere, kino moments guaranteed
>>154917062this is way beyond just poor people being priced out. even with a good salary you'd have to be insane to shell out upwards of €500 for a ticket to see a football match
I don't trust any news about the world cup, retards want "trump's world cup" to fail so much that they will constantly lie about it
>those ticket pricesYeh just boycott it. No fans no beautiful game
>>154917723Funny thing is that It's not even the most egregious thing about USA. The hotel stay will be insanely expensive never mind if your team plays in expensive cities like Miami, LA, New York or San Francisco. Then the food/restaurants. I have no idea how normies visit USA with a clear conscience of dumping almost a year of labour on a week "vacation"
>>154915586I hope so
>>154915586yes Qatar was good>it was in december, players were fresh, games with high intensity and pace>local populace is crazy about football, nation stopped to be the hosts of the world cup
>holding this world cup thing during mlb seasonthese third worlders fucked upfking april baseball would be more exciting than socceri think there’s games in canada too and nobody even talks about it lol
Why would anyone spend 99999999999999999$ to watch Burkina Faso vs. Cape Verde 0-0 slurper in nose bleed seats when I can watch every game for free in my bed cozy?
>>154918431How else are you going to brag about how social you are on your instagram or tiktok account?
>>154918548LOL I’m still not getting a hot Stacy even if I try to jester- & normiemaxx.So there’s no reason to play the game, when the only reward is some fat goblina who will make your life hell.
>>154918374Qatar was shit. Last good WC was 2014.
>>154916994not since the 90s probably. Corrupt FIFA fuckwads take all the money. No number of hotel bookings can compensate for the number of police officers you need, building fan zones, media areas, cleaning crews, regular tourists staying away etc. And that's only if you have a country with a proper football culture and infrastructure.
>>154915586Can't wait for the emergency fake fans, just like in Qatar
>>154915586>tickets unsoldTickets were unsold in Qatar as well. Remember the Indian migrant workers in foreign football shirts for each country? At least if America does that, they'll use football-loving Mexicans instead.
>>154917123No country can host a 48-team tournament on its own. Mexico would have been good, but they do skin people alive there and also they needed help from the Americlaps.
>>154917723What kind of poor fag retard can’t afford $500 for a once a 4 year event? How much do you pay for a ticket in Europe then to make it justifiable, $15?
>>154920153those people didn't have tickets, they were just used to fill fanzones.
>>154920432what kind of retard corporate bootlicker defends 500 dollar tickets? QF 2020 Euros was 185 euros and that was already on the hefty side if you ask me. FIFA makes plenty of money, they don't need to fuck over the real fans like this.
>>154915586>Making a World Cup in three countries>Two of those three countries don’t even care a flying fuck about the sport Why did they think this was a good idea
>>154915675Qatar was kino>During November and December which have holidays and are known for being low productive months at your job>Awesome game schedules Idk man it was better than I thought it would
isn't soccer for thirdie poors who don't have mma or boxing?
>One ticket to the World Cup match please+ $250 parking (you literallly cannot walk to the arena because they built a moat of highways around it with no crossings)+ $1000/night hotel room (or $500/night motel room with armed african-american gentlemen playing a heated dice game by the ice machine)+ $10 Dr Pepper (+ $3 if opt-in for football-shaped ice cubes)Quatar tickets were like $75-100
>>154915797The only time I hear about college handegg is from this board.
>>154920522Americans have no identity they’re just wagies living in an economic zone aka. billionaire jews playground.They are bred by the elites to maximize cannon fodder x consumer traits.
>>154915586they will just give tickets away to school kids if they don't sell
I liked the Qatar WC even the rent a fan pajeets didnt bother me
>>154920432What kind of poor fag retard travels to the other side of the world to watch a month-long tournament, then only goes to one match? $500 is a reasonable price for the final. $50-$100 is reasonable for the group stages. Any more is just money-grubbing.
>>154920592>>154921106Spoken like true buck broken consumer golems who excuse hollow gimmickry and complete break with tradition as enjoyable as only cattle would
>>154915675qatar was one of the better world cups from a host and supporter experience thoughbeit.
This is why qatar just hired indianswe won't even the /sp/ jeets for every game just empty stadiums
>>154915586Only Argentians (rightfully so) and turbo Messi fans liked Qatar as you can see by some replies ITT.Any sane football fans know that Qatar was one of the worse WC's in history since it started with the Qatar government bribing the voters to get the WC. (Anyone with half a brain knows why they did it but w/e)Then there was the whole "played during the winter fiasco" turning a lot of fans away from going there.And since the ticket sales were so low, they had to give them away to the workers that built the stadiums and somehow thought no one would suspect a thing, it was embarrassing seeing the same "fans" rooting for different teams every game.I'll avoid talking about the obvious reffballing during the WC because every WC winner usually gets a little help here and there from the refs, but it was painfully obvious that something big was happening outside of the pitch to ensure someone would win it all.It was probably the worst WC I've ever seen, and I have my doubts this one will be any better, but the bar is so low now that it would be an achievement to fuck it up worse than Qatar WC.
>>154921227Not really a World Cup when it’s played in the middle of a season in the winter imo.
>>154921227People also liked Qatar because of the final, but I thought the final would be in the evening and I was travelling for Christmas in the afternoon so I wound up missing it :(
>>154920432You're always going with at least 2 and will get fleeced on transport, hotel and food/drinks too. So its probably $2000 at the very least.
>>154921227Euros hate Qatar because we won it, simple as.
>>154921186>buck broken consumer golemstf,tp
>>154915586Qatar only had one city, so that was full anyway
>>154920692I think youre exaggerating, but I also dont care. At this point I just assume any & everything is a scam so I stopped checking.Its a cultural shift, & I think more & more people are checking out.Fuck the Cup.
>>154921420>Euros hate Qatar because we won itI was actually cheering for you at the start, mainly because of the "ESCUCHEN" thing, and I really don't care about the whole Ronaldo vs Messi thing, but it was so painfully obvious since your defeat in the first games that the refs stepped in to help you progress that I couldn't do it, even the pundits couldn't find excuses for some of the Pens Argentina was getting for free.
Germany won't have political protests this time.>“Having no opinion isn't the solution. Each of us inevitably has a personal stance on certain topics, and I, too, have certain values I stand by. But at the same time, it's difficult to express this opinion in the role of a footballer or captain of the national team. Just because you have an opinion doesn't make you an expert. It's the responsibility of politicians or associations to take a position on such topics. Political situations, in particular, are often difficult to assess, even for people who deal with them professionally. The idea that we players can solve these problems or change anything about them is the wrong expectation" >t. Kimmich
Qatar was shit because if we were playing like that shit season, we would have random league games today, next week and than suddenly play the world cup with teams that can barely play together.
>>154921420>ITS ALL ABOUT ME delusional as fuck. Qatar sucked ass because thousands died building retarded useless stadiums in a fake disneyland country build on blood, oil and extortion. All to host a corrupt world cup in winter that barely any fans even went to. And the ones that did go were put in UNHCR tents without air conditioning in a fucking desert and so few even went that pajeets had to pretend to be Argentinian.
>>154921587Who gives a fuck? What matters is the tournament, not the building process or the living conditions of the idiots who went to watch it. Do you have any objections about the competition itself or just crocodile tears for pajeets you never cared about?
>>154921974>browngentinian has no grasp of virtue ethics whatsoeverto the surprise of no one
>>154921519Why are all Germans so intelligent and articulate? You couldn’t imagine Harry Kane saying any of that.
>>154921974I object to the fact it was in winter.
>>154915586Needs to be forever a euro event though I hope the Fifa scam stops existing.
>>154922120Sadly they support sodomy and troons.
>>154915738South Africa World Cup ruled. I loved the vuvuzelas and how mad people got about them.
>>154921348And everyone always forgets this important fact too. The final was fucking terrible until the last 10 minutes of regular time
Imagine a Japanese family flying in for the World Cup. They pay absurd airfare, inflated ticket prices, and $400 a night for an airport Ramada off the highway. They arrive exhausted after a long flight and get greeted by an obese front desk worker who perfectly captures the modern American experience. Visibly unhealthy, underpaid, overworked, resentful, and acting like the guests are the problem for showing up to the room they already paid for.Is that hospitality? Is that the great American welcome? Is that what people are supposed to cross an ocean for?No warmth. No pride. No competence. Just fluorescent lighting, stale lobby coffee, a broken ice machine, and the distinct feeling that the guest, the worker, the hotel, and the country itself are all trapped inside the same miserable extraction machine.Then the family goes out to eat. What do they find? A strip mall chain restaurant serving reheated Sysco slop at absurd prices, followed by the expectation that they add another 20% for service that would be considered subpar in Japan, a country where tipping is basically unthinkable.So what exactly is the appeal?America is no longer a compelling destination for international travelers. It is barely compelling for many Americans. It is expensive, unhealthy, hostile, fragmented, ugly, and hollowed out. The infrastructure is bad. The service culture is degraded. The food is overpriced garbage. The hotels are a ripoff. The cities are wildly expensive, unsafe, inconvenient, or some miserable combination of all three.And yet Americans still walk around like the world should feel lucky to visit. That is the real story here. The American brand is dying in public. The mythology only works when people still want to believe it.
>>154921974you don't care about world cups being held in retarded sandnigger countries where kissing in public, drinking alcohol or showing your knees is illegal. Do you by any chance seek a job at FIFA?
>>154924953you need to be able to read and write to work at FIFA
>>154922139>>154924953>kissing in public, drinking alcohol or showing your knees is illegalBased.
Every interaction in America is now an extraction opportunity. Every customer is a mark. Every worker is a cost center. Every public event is a monetization funnel. Every inconvenience is a chance to add a fee. Every basic human need, housing, healthcare, transportation, education, food, entertainment, has been handed to people whose only real talent is calculating how much pain the market will tolerate before it breaks.A family wants to attend a World Cup match and immediately gets pulled into a pickpocketing tunnel. The stadium charges $28 for a Bud Light then flips around an iPad asking for 25% extra. The whole experience feels like one of those cartoon machines that grabs you by the ankles, shakes you upside down, and waits for the last quarter to fall out.At some point people stop experiencing this country as a place and start experiencing it as a sequence of tollbooths.That is the real rot. Not one greedy hotel. Not one corrupt sports body. Not one bad landlord. It is the logic of private equity applied to the whole country. Raise prices. Cut staff. Add fees. Lower quality. Load it with debt. Sell the asset. Blame the customer. Blame the worker. Blame the market. Then move on before the wreckage becomes your problem.This is why America feels worse every year even as asset owners get richer. The country is being strip mined by people whose allegiance is not to community, service, competence, or continuity.
>>154924657>>154925777Did you write all this from personal experience or AI lolAccurate yet UK and much of Europe is worse in many respects. There is nothing more disgusting in the history of the planet than going to a European city filled with jeets and nigs trying to scam you at every turn. The UK you get American soullessness with none of the wealth and virtually none of the beauty of Europe
>>154916443Aww past your little bedtime little finn?
>>154927770He spells centre the American way so he definitely didn’t write it himself. My guess is he copied and pasted it.
>>154917123>>154920335Last I heard Mexicans don't care about soccer either. They were having trouble selling tix in colder Mexico (US) as well so..
>>154915797It's called football, your president said so
