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News & Current Events Apr 3, 2026 at 5:19 PM

FIFA cancels hotel reservation blocks in Dallas, Arlington ahead of World Cup

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FIFA cancels hotel reservation blocks in Dallas, Arlington ahead of World Cup
KERA News
FIFA cancels hotel reservation blocks in Dallas, Arlington ahead of World Cup
FIFA has canceled hotel block reservations in Dallas and Arlington just months before the 2026 World Cup is scheduled to begin, officials confirmed to KERA.
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NewsCards Apr 3, 2026 +4712
> fans and players from five countries that have qualified for the World Cup must pay up to $15,000 for a bond to get a tourist visa this year due to President Donald Trump's stricter immigration policy What the f***?
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cannot_walk_barefoot Apr 3, 2026 +2308
"stricter immigration policy". It's basically going directly into bank accounts. It's all a huge scam and grift but the media acts like its legit policy making. As if he hasn't made billions since coming back into the presidency 
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Mathfanforpresident Apr 3, 2026 +576
I really think that we should all be paying attention to the fact that Elon Musk not only have multiple investigations going on into his financial dealings, his net worth has more than doubled since forming Doge and getting involved in the government. Take a look at Jeff bezos. That dude has been stuck at like $225 billion for the past 5 years. Elon Musk now eclipses the rest of the wealthiest individuals on the planet. Now, call me crazy, but I'm not so sure it's a coincidence that his net worth has grown exponentially since inauguration 2025.... Probably just a coincidence. Edit: used speech to text. Meant to say he *HAD* investigations. They gon' Edit2: The reason I bring it up is because: If the world's richest people show obvious signs they've amassed their net worth from dubious or possibly illegal means, lawlessness is now the norm.
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aeternus_hypertrophy Apr 3, 2026 +221
Elon is a house of cards built on his waning popularity and ability to siphon public money. The moment he stops rising, it all crashes. And that's why SpaceX is now being valued at ~~$900B~~ ~~$1T~~ $2T ahead of its IPO. The pump can never stop
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ScissorFight42069 Apr 3, 2026 +102
Yet somehow, he's going to remain unfathomably rich. These people never lose.
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Schonke Apr 3, 2026 +63
A billionaire could lose 99% of their net worth and still have more than the average american family/couple makes in a lifetime. (Average US salary is $65K. $65k x 50 years = $3.5M x 2 adults = $7M. 1% of $1B = $10M.) If the average american lost 99% of their net worth, they wouldn't even be able to buy a decent new-ish car with the $6200 they'd have left. The median net worth (i.e. when compensating for the extreme wealth disparity of Americans) wouldn't even be able to afford one month's rent in major US cities with the ~$1250 they'd have left. Edit: A billionaire losing 99.9% of their net worth would *still* put them well above the average net worth of Americans with $1M to spare vs $620K average. Musk being "worth" $860B could be fined $30M per day and still have over $200B when he dies in 60 years.
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Squire_II Apr 3, 2026 +13
> 0.1% of $1B = $10M You mixed up your numbers, 0.1% of 1 billion is 1 million. 1% of 1 billion is 10 million.
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Schonke Apr 4, 2026 +4
Thank you, yes I did! Corrected now.
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ScissorFight42069 Apr 4, 2026 +19
Most people simply cannot conceptualize the difference between a million and a billion. Keeping the US education system crippled is not an accident, no doubt.
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LunDeus Apr 3, 2026 +7
He’s definitely not living another 60 years, but the math checks out.
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dooyaunastan Apr 3, 2026 +6
"They can't; it's impossible - but they'll figure a way. I've been at this company for ten years and I've seen some things you wouldn't.. you wouldn't believe. When all is said and done, they do not lose money. They don't mind if everybody else does, but they don't lose." -Paul Bettany playing as Will Emerson in Margin Call (2011)
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The_Lapsed_Pacifist Apr 4, 2026 +16
Elon doesn’t have multiple investigations anymore, he got rid of or gutted the departments that were looking into him when he was doing the DOGE thing. He basically paid to do that and have a good rummage through all the data stored on citizens while he was at it. It was a bargain for him.
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Ashamed-Land1221 Apr 3, 2026 +23
He got doge to kill/cancel/ignore not prosecute over 18 separate investigations against him and his businesses going back two decades, he dismantled the last blocks against super greedy rich assholes. He can do what he wants now for the foreseeable future with little repercussions, the rich won the class war, all that's left now are more less meaningless battles that they'll let the poors win knowing full well it won't change their wealth or power structure one bit for them but giving the poors a victory every now and then if meaningless to them allows them to look somewhat decent in the eyes of the rubes waiting for things to trickle down and less likely to go Dr Wario on their asses when we can barely afford protein other than soy that some believe will turn you gay, it will be quite the mental struggle for those idiots in a few years.
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DelayedTism Apr 3, 2026 +19
There's a million sheep for every wolf. Humans are such suckers
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dptraynor Apr 3, 2026 +97
Hey, now. The media has been quite clear in reporting that *some people* have *called it* a grift.
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bonheurboy69 Apr 3, 2026 +29
Don’t sell the media short. They’ll also boldly call it a “break from tradition.”
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RollForSeduction Apr 3, 2026 +9
More like sticker immigration policy. Just buy our US day pass, only 1k a day!
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boilerdam Apr 3, 2026 +740
The fuckier part? That bond is refundable once they leave the country, in principle. There isn't a system in place yet for them to reclaim that refund. Just like the tariffs.
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BullShitting-24-7 Apr 3, 2026 +393
So its not a bond. It’s an entrance fee.
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TodayInStupidity Apr 3, 2026 +94
Exactly, with no exit guarantee.
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McortezLSU Apr 3, 2026 +36
An idiot fee. like only a complete idiot would do sth so idiotic.
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refsoccer11 Apr 3, 2026 +140
Just like the guesstimate of 600,000 that put $100 deposit on the Trump phone. (60 million dollars). Any refund? Nope. Any product? Nope. Any anticipated delivery? Nope. Just 60 million grifted by the Trump family.
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Roadside_Prophet Apr 3, 2026 +39
If you're dumb enough to buy a Trump phone you deserve to lose your money. That person was just going to spend that money on magic beans or something anyway.
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refsoccer11 Apr 3, 2026 +8
Now you've given him another idea. Trump magic beans.
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Exotic-West3751 Apr 3, 2026 +61
You cant trust this administration to give you back that money. Its a grift like everything else
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cannot_walk_barefoot Apr 3, 2026 +25
And the $50k promised to ICE officers in 5 years. They will never see that 
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systemhost Apr 3, 2026 +22
And despite the MASSIVE budget they rammed through Congress for ICE, they didn't seem to budget for that hiring bonus so their plan is to make the next president have to deal with that budgetary liability or deal with the public wrath of MAGA by not playing ball. And they still want EVEN MORE funding for them right now.
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Pizza_Low Apr 3, 2026 +26
I like how the fbi's budget is ~ 11 billion, and ICE's budget is > 75 billion. The USMC's budget is 57 billion. Someone explain to how that makes sense.
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GD_7F Apr 4, 2026 +5
> Someone explain to how that makes sense. Easy, it's a paramilitary loyal to trump that has already been tested to see if it will shoot political undesirables and also a corruption engine that funnels deals like warehouse contracts to loyalists. And I'm sure all that military hardware they've procured won't find its way into the hands of right wing militias.
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CrissBliss Apr 3, 2026 +18
Explain this more because I’m confused by this
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whole_kernel Apr 3, 2026 +177
Box with a money s*** and a sign that says "pay $5 refundable fee to enter the club". You put in $5 and go in the club. Then you walk out later. But your money is still in the box with no way to get it out and there's no one to talk to about getting your money back.
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Rakebleed Apr 3, 2026 +59
scammers gonna scam
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Jayken Apr 3, 2026 +32
And they would likely still be brutalized by ICE, because they don't care about paperwork.
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amateur_mistake Apr 3, 2026 +13
Getting beat up by ICE and put in a detention camp probably negates your ability to even try to get that $15,000 back.
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AudibleNod Apr 3, 2026 +7230
>A spokesperson for FIFA declined to say how many reservations were canceled in North Texas. Other host cities like Philadelphia and Mexico City have reported up to 2,000 cancelations. I wonder how the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize recipient will respond to this.
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ActualSpiders Apr 3, 2026 +2005
Probably by declaring war on all the countries that boycott the tournament
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headbangershappyhour Apr 3, 2026 +960
Italy over there with the galaxy brain 'You can't boycott if you don't qualify' approach
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BokeTsukkomi Apr 3, 2026 +653
Italy Boycotted the world cup in russia Boycotted the world cup in Qatar Boycotted the world cup in the US They should get the Peace Prize! 
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Nooms88 Apr 3, 2026 +57
Noway they participate in Saudi 2034. Juries out on 2030, Morocco is a bit shakey.
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RuairiQ Apr 3, 2026 +140
Italy and Ireland making way for Iran and Iraq to represent the eyes!
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birger67 Apr 3, 2026 +15
Denmark as well and that in the "easiest group" lol but i´m sort of happy our guys aren´t gonna partake in that clusterfrack
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RegretsZ Apr 3, 2026 +42
Why are reservations not filling in Mexico?
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Spinoza42 Apr 3, 2026 +200
Because the war means the tournament is both unsafe and too expensive.
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ViolettaQueso Apr 3, 2026 +39
Nobody’s in the mood.
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lemurosity Apr 3, 2026 +15
Tbf this describes most CONCACAF matches.
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thebigj3wbowski Apr 3, 2026 +107
The US illegally sending ICE and DEA agents in to arrest folks probably isn’t helping.
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Robzilla_the_turd Apr 3, 2026 +31
To Mexico?!
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joelham01 Apr 3, 2026 +56
Yeah apparently Ice is also going to be in Toronto and Vancouver… I wish I was joking
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ViolettaQueso Apr 3, 2026 +36
They went to Italy for the Winter Olympics.
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fknSamsquamptch Apr 3, 2026 +20
They have no enforcement powers. Basically just a security detail for the fascists.
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PhilosopherFLX Apr 4, 2026 +12
Yup, security details in foreign nations never beat the living f*** out of locals... (¬_¬)
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kananishino Apr 3, 2026 +52
Yeah they're going bring them back to the US and deport them back to their country /s
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Aldo_says Apr 3, 2026 +85
As stupid as that seems, I wouldn't put it past the current administration.
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Available_Leather_10 Apr 3, 2026 +12
Deport them to El Salvador or Uganda or maybe Iran.
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Cachar Apr 3, 2026 +333
Maybe they can start a class action lawsuit together with Qatar. They paid their bribes like good upstanding corrupt entities and Trump didn't deliver the goods, after all.
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AnonEMoussie Apr 3, 2026 +64
But JD said they would be welcome…so long as they don’t stay more than their visa, OR if they get pulled over for a spot check. I know idiot Congress people think ICE has been “trained” to read IDs, but every encounter with them seems like they say “could be a forgery!” And detain them anyways.
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CodingNeeL Apr 4, 2026 +9
> every encounter with them seems like they say "could be a forgery!" And detain them anyways. Seems to me they are trained, just not in the way you'd hope.
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refsoccer11 Apr 3, 2026 +30
15000 in Vancouver.
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mrdominoe Apr 3, 2026 +75
I mean, whenever I "host" someone in MY home, I make sure to charge them thousands of dollars for "security."
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Altruistic-Car2880 Apr 3, 2026 +29
Those “guests” in MY home used to bring a bottle of wine as a gift. That was fine for all of recorded time. Until now. The going rate now is a tanker of crude, a truckload of shiny gold things and a few bags of crypto tokens.
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meshakooo Apr 3, 2026 +124
This is going to be the lamest and worst World Cup.
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thesean366 Apr 3, 2026 +154
I honestly kind of hope it is
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DefiThrowaway Apr 3, 2026 +56
I played high school, then D2 soccer in college in the 90's. From the time I was 5, soccer was the 'next big sport' in America. When the US hosted in 1994, made it out of Round Robin, played a behemoth in Columbia on US soil on the 4th of July, it was a large enough foundation to get the MLS off the ground. I don't know a single soul now excited for this World Cup.
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Silver_Hunter8926 6 days ago +4
Only because of the price gouging. Tickets are impossible to get at face value and even face value is very high. We are near Boston and would love to go to a match but no way im.soending 1000+ a ticket.
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BetterEveryLeapYear Apr 3, 2026 +27
Slave deaths for Qatar in 30C/90F+ conditions in the middle of winter was pretty lame and bad, but the US is doing it's best to worsen it!
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yaboonabi Apr 3, 2026 +57
He’d offer accommodations in one of his Trash Palaces, if he actually liked Texas and had some built there. 
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txroller Apr 3, 2026 +24
He has so many cult followers there
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yaboonabi Apr 3, 2026 +22
Weird how misguided their faith is. 
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PokemonSapphire Apr 3, 2026 +13
Makes perfect sense when you ask them questions about their actual "faith."
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CryptoMemesLOL Apr 3, 2026 +11
Will he even attend 1 event?
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gumiho-9th-tail Apr 3, 2026 +31
Of course; can’t lift the trophy if you don’t attend the final.
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redbirdjazzz Apr 3, 2026 +41
I see that you’ve used “lift” here in the sense of “to steal.”
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kinglouie493 Apr 3, 2026 +6
Free tickets for ICE
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Most-Writer-2838 Apr 3, 2026 +4
5,000% tariffs on the countries wherever the reservation holders were from.
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DirtDevil1337 Apr 3, 2026 +1553
Philly, Vancouver and now Dallas, more likely to come. Something tells me they haven't been getting the ticket sales they were anticipating.
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AudibleNod Apr 3, 2026 +676
They're using dynamic pricing.
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drinkduffdry Apr 3, 2026 +415
Let's see how dynamic they end up
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peakedtooearly Apr 3, 2026 +123
Yeah they'd need to pay me to attend and cover my flights.
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KenUsimi Apr 3, 2026 +25
I say we hold out for paid minibars, too.
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akmalhot Apr 3, 2026 +22
they just raised the prices of quarters / semis and finals by like 30%
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kurttheflirt Apr 3, 2026 +139
As an American this makes me sad at the state of our country. As an American who likes soccer, I might actually be able to afford a ticket to go see a match or two
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Beard_o_Bees Apr 3, 2026 +233
Nah.. they'd rather have empty seats than lower the prices significantly.
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kurttheflirt Apr 3, 2026 +47
Sad but probably true. Hoping some scalpers bought them and will take an L though 
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maverick4002 Apr 3, 2026 +24
They definitely do not want empty seats to be broadcast worldwide. With that said, we are still too far out of the competition for prices to decrease. If it were to decrease, id expect not to see movement until around June
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Spobobich Apr 3, 2026 +23
They're gonna have cardboard cut outs of people filling the empty seats like during the pandemic.
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ExplorerPup Apr 3, 2026 +24
Article says that American's have actually been spiking the prices since they're willing to pay more, so don't hold your breath if you don't already have a ticket.
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peepeebutt1234 Apr 3, 2026 +18
If you go take a look at the prices your wallet will probably shrivel up and hide. Looking at Stubhub, Qatar vs Switzerland in Santa Clara is the cheapest game I can find, and its around $400-500 for upper level, worst tickets you could get. Lower level ranges from $1000~ if you want to sit behind one of the goals, all the way to $15,000 for mid-field. The US vs Paraguay game in LA is pretty insane right now, cheapest tickets around $3,000 up to $50,000 for the best seats.
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Ok_Hornet_714 Apr 4, 2026 +7
Stubhub might not be the best price, tickets appear to be somewhat cheaper on the official FIFA marketplace. Though I doubt the tickets will ever be what I would call reasonable. It looks like all the tickets in my area had a face value of $140+ for seats in the last row of the stadium.
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garanvor Apr 3, 2026 +30
And as a Brazilian, honestly, screw this world cup.
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UberBostonDriver Apr 3, 2026 +25
They always overbooked and cancel as needed. Airbnbs around Boston area are getting $7K+ a week bookings for June during the world cup.
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kananishino Apr 3, 2026 +36
Tickets are sold out right now
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Confettiman Apr 3, 2026 +111
The tickets they have opened up are sold out. They haven’t released 100% of tickets for the games yet
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ouikikazz Apr 3, 2026 +8
Only what they released and I've already seen a few for resale, I just want to attend a game and the whole process is so complicated other than just throwing money I don't have at the problem
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marcSuile Apr 3, 2026 +645
All I know is I’ve been on the email list for the World Cup given I live relatively close to Philly. The amount of ticket/hotel bundle emails I have gotten in the past two weeks now make sense lol. They’re really hurting for reservations it seems.
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anduril206 Apr 3, 2026 +115
Yeah. I also know cities have been talking about the number of visitors expected. But I think what is more likely is that soccer fans will just go see teams locally. I'm in the PNW and I believe that our stadium is essentially sold out and that there is high demand. But I also would guess that a majority of tickets have been sold to folks who live within driving distance.
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EmuMan10 Apr 3, 2026 +21
Yeah I gotta think a vast majority of attendance will be locals
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goodlife_arc Apr 3, 2026 +46
Are you going to get a ticket? I am in San Diego and would love to go watch a game…. But not like this.
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kananishino Apr 3, 2026 +37
You're kind of too late unless you buy resale.
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mejok Apr 3, 2026 +29
Not like your chances were super high to begin with. Me and 4 of my buddies all signed up for each of the ticket phases. Only one of us, me, was successful. It was during the first ticketing period and before the groups were set. The US games were set though and I was pretty much only interested in going to a US game, but I wasn’t interested in spending 800 bucks a ticket for the game in Seattle. There were also still tickets available for the first game in LA but they were 1900 a piece.
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kananishino Apr 3, 2026 +23
Yeah a lot of people are acting like the tickets are so easy to get because people are boycotting when that is just plain not true.
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kizmitraindeer Apr 3, 2026 +29
Please, please don’t support this organization with your money. How are people even still considering it?!
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IvanStarokapustin Apr 3, 2026 +770
Amazing that people would back off on visiting Texas of all places. The state’s elected officials have always been so supportive of immigration.
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deesta Apr 3, 2026 +140
It's not even about the individual states' support of immigration (or lack thereof), because regardless of which state you fly into, you have to go through immigration and customs that's run by the federal government
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fuckCuntservatives Apr 3, 2026 +44
I dunno, Rafael Cruz seems to spend a lot of time immigrating around when things aren't going well...
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Consistent-Throat130 Apr 3, 2026 +17
On the one hand - Texas has been so backwards about it for decades that *not much changed* and the focus of "enforcement" isn't there due to the red state not bring a target of political retaliation.  On the other - Texas 100% will use state resources to help shitty federal initiatives. 
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ZenBreaking Apr 3, 2026 +177
I hope the whole tournament is a failure. Teams pull out. Fans boycott it, the works
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Intelligent-Aside214 Apr 4, 2026 +46
You underestimate how much people care about football. No one will pull out
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poney01 Apr 4, 2026 +29
Italy did!
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yhwhx Apr 3, 2026 +1712
All matches should be moved to Canada or Mexico. Nobody should risk traveling internationally to Dear Leader Donald's USA.
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showhorrorshow Apr 3, 2026 +419
Totally off topic but for some reason reading your comment, maybe it was tbe use of the possessive noun, it just dawned on me why he like's McDonald's so much. Because it has his f****** name in the name. Jfc.
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AudibleNod Apr 3, 2026 +185
Someone commented the reason why he picked 'Pence' and 'Vance' was those weren't longer than 'Trump'. He does have a curious fixation with his name, I'll grant you.
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Rakastaakissa Apr 3, 2026 +110
Wouldn’t surprise me at all, he did have ICE training shortened to 47 days because he’s the 47th president.
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Ironfields Apr 3, 2026 +7
Isn't this actually confirmed?
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AnusOprah Apr 3, 2026 +20
And raping children.
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Wanna_make_cash Apr 3, 2026 +4
I think Vance is more of a threat to the local furniture stores
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willstr1 Apr 3, 2026 +47
That and the "golden arches" logo, the dumbass is obsessed with gold
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Matookie Apr 3, 2026 +27
Holy shit, you are probably right!
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PokinSpokaneSlim Apr 3, 2026 +5
Bruh, is that why he chose Scotland for his golf course?
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ambercrayon Apr 3, 2026 +20
Oh no that's so sad
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BravestWabbit Apr 3, 2026 +4
I..... https://static.klipy.com/ii/d7aec6f6f171607374b2065c836f92f4/64/5a/pr8fgRi0.gif
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EINFACH_NUR_DAEMLICH Apr 3, 2026 +5
F***, I think you're right.
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davejugs01 Apr 3, 2026 +30
If we had the ability to support that many football fans we would, the stadium in Toronto could barely accommodate half the capacity of a standard stadium in Spain.
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CroutonDeGivre Apr 3, 2026 +22
In Canada, FIFA asks for so much. Montréal decided not to host for a lot of reasons : https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-format/2241441/fifa-coupe-monde-canada-exigences-couts
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lollipop999 Apr 3, 2026 +67
Mexico hasn't even finished stadium renovations and infrastructure projects. Canada doesn't have enough stadiums. Infantino is Donald's little b****.
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jipijipijipi Apr 3, 2026 +29
And Montreal declined since FIFA asked them to cancel the F1 Grand Prix, every festival of the summer and shutdown the old town for weeks.
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ReactiveCypress Apr 3, 2026 +26
Yeah as a Canadian it's funny when people suggest this. I'm in Calgary, and our CFL stadium was built in the 60s with hardly any upgrades to it since it opened. Not to mention the other cities with nice stadiums like Regina and Winnipeg are not places that glitzy international soccer fans would want to spend time in. 
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ModishShrink Apr 3, 2026 +16
It's almost like hosting a world soccer tournament across three countries that don't have the infrastructure or cultural appetite for a world soccer tournament is a bad idea.
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Demi182 Apr 3, 2026 +9
That would never work. Those countries have nowhere near the infrastructure necessary.
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Indercarnive Apr 3, 2026 +955
Expensive tickets in an authoritarian country that's committing war crimes and proudly hates foreigners. Not a good combination for high attendance.
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AudibleNod Apr 3, 2026 +309
>Additionally, fans and players from five countries that have qualified for the World Cup must pay up to $15,000 for a bond to get a tourist visa this year due to President Donald Trump's stricter immigration policy. Pay to play IRL is getting expensive.
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McBuck2 Apr 3, 2026 +51
And he'll probably find an excuse to keep it.
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Illustrious_Bad_2980 Apr 3, 2026 +63
He doesn't need an excuse. He'll tell the world he's keeping it and no one will stop him
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sonic_couth Apr 3, 2026 +15
Is that $15k per team or per team related individual?
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BensenJensen Apr 3, 2026 +31
Per indiviudal
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Saneless Apr 3, 2026 +65
All in a country that, largely, doesn't care for the sport all that much anyway
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Baud_Olofsson Apr 3, 2026 +13
> Expensive tickets in an authoritarian country that's committing war crimes and proudly hates foreigners. That's, like, every world cup the past decade or so?
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thatoneguy889 Apr 3, 2026 +42
Not that the US doesn't deserve it, but you say that like the last two World Cups weren't hosted by Russia and Qatar. I'm going to wait and see before I read anything into this because those were largely successful despite the online narratives claiming they were going to be massive failures. People have proven time and time again that they'll prioritize their entertainment over ethics.
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Skeleton--Jelly Apr 3, 2026 +31
I can't think of any demographic that cares less about ethics than football fans. I'm European so I know it first hand
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EatinSumGrapes Apr 3, 2026 +301
So excited to go to easter dinner this weekend and listen to my family complain about how horrible the rest of the world is for punishing Americans just because the world is obsessed with hating Trump for no reason. They are so far up their own asses, and Trump's ass
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BensenJensen Apr 3, 2026 +88
I get to go and listen to my MAGA family tell me about the Iran War and how great Trump is for raining hellfire on Iranians and how much we are winning. I work Iranian military intelligence for the Army. If I gave a shit enough to tell them are wrong, I would get to hear how they, Fox News watchers, know more than me, a literal subject matter expert, about the thing I do for a living.
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dannynoonanpdx Apr 3, 2026 +26
I grew up in Houston and live in Portland. Met a girl in a pool in Cabo from Houston. I told her Portland is safe and waaaay safer than Houston imo. She refused to believe me. Has she ever been to Portland? Nope, but that wouldn’t stop her from believing Fox News over a Portland resident.
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Live-Laugh-Fart Apr 4, 2026 +3
Portland is a legitimately cool city. I’m in a group chat of like 12 people for fantasy baseball and we were on the topic of expansion cities. I said Portland would be a great baseball city and they lost their minds and just started spouting Fox News propaganda. It’s sad and pathetic. None of them have even been there before.
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OddDot724 Apr 3, 2026 +78
I mean you could just tell them they're miserable cunts and have easter dinner with people's company you enjoy
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quazi-mofo Apr 3, 2026 +52
People need to stop being on good terms with family and friends that keep supporting this mess. We are well past "agree to disagree". It's hard but you gotta just cut them off.
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callisstaa Apr 3, 2026 +25
In a very similar sense the world needs to stop being 'good friends' with the US.
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AlternativeRun5727 Apr 3, 2026 +11
I think that has happened. It is just a complex decoupling process that will take a decade or more. Trump is the symptom, not the source
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donkeyrocket Apr 3, 2026 +17
We ripped that bandage off at the tail end of his first administration. No idea how folks tolerate being around those that still staunchly support him.
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flirtmcdudes Apr 3, 2026 +12
It’s kinda funny how they all defaulted into the “the only reason you feel that way is because you don’t like Trump” so they never have to think critically to defend anything he does
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Suthrnr Apr 3, 2026 +40
Im happy I was able to cut off the right wing members of my family so I dont have to listen to their insane cultist rants, followed by how they went on a missionary trip to Africa and kidnapped peoples children. Right wingers are so f****** insane and evil these days. As far as Im concerned the family I knew all died.
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IsopodIndependent553 Apr 3, 2026 +30
I no longer speak to my conservative friends who voted for Trump. I can tolerate Centrists, Independents, and Libertarians to a degree as long as they don’t dehumanize others or make apologies for the GOP. Luckily my mother is as left wing as I am, and my dad is a lifelong Republican who HATES Trump so much he stopped voting for all Republicans. But at this point I don’t want anything to do Trump voters. They are divorced from reality and are incapable of being reached. Every single one of them deserves to be shunned and shamed. Can you elaborate on your family kidnapping children in Africa? That’s wild.
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Suthrnr Apr 3, 2026 +9
My aunt finds babies who have “been abandoned” and takes them back to some food hall church thing they set up there to feed them and “fill them with the love of jesus christ”. Then the parents show up, she recalled being fearful that she might be killed multiple times. Which, of course, means that she just stole the babies and they were never abandoned but shes so f****** nuts at this point that she cant make that connection
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Defiant_Employee6681 Apr 3, 2026 +12
This isn’t serious right? Your aunt kidnaps children??
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SuperSpecialAwesome- Apr 3, 2026 +4
> Im happy I was able to cut off the right wing members of my family I haven't had one conversation with my MAGA sister since Thanksgiving of 2024. It's kinda refreshing, since she's always been a judgmental, condescending b**** to me all my life. She ruined Thanksgiving (my niece's birthday) with all her Trump praising bullshit, just a month after she did the same thing during my late aunt's memorial. I've come to realize that my sister and I have never had anything in common, and the huge age gap definitely affected our closeness. If not for my niece, we'd be little more than strangers. She can be a bigot all she wants, as long as I don't have to hear her nonsense. Thankfully, my brothers hate Trump, but my aunt and her daughter are just as MAGA as my sister. It's horrifying knowing my closest friends growing up are at risk of being harmed by Trump for being Hispanic. Or that RFK could come after people like me for being neurodivergent. Or that LGBT+ people will be next on the chopping block. And you're just powerless to do anything about it, since there's absolutely no leaders to look up to.
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Strange-Effort1305 Apr 3, 2026 +6
Jus reply with a southern accent "The Biiiiible says adulterers are to be put to death" and jus stare at them.
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drunkshinobi Apr 3, 2026 +6
People need to stop forcing themselves to interact and pretend everything is fine. If they are still supporting a dictator destroying the country then they aren't worth your time. When some one is addicted to drugs. The best thing you can do most of the time is to cut them off completely. Every time you accept them being around they feel like you accept their addiction. Same with cultists. If you keep letting them be around and spewing their c*** they will think it is ok. It isn't until they are cut off from everyone that they realize they're in the wrong and need to change. To seek help.
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charlieondras1 Apr 4, 2026 +39
If I was a foreigner I would not come to the USA.
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NIDORAX Apr 4, 2026 +36
Tourists should avoid going to the United States right now.
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tantej Apr 3, 2026 +40
Oh wow. Something tells me this is not just regular inventory shuffling
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Wafkak Apr 3, 2026 +9
Depends, thry may also have overestimated fans willingness to stay in the expensive hotels. I know for Brazil a lot of Belgian fans stayed in a glorified tent camp. Tickets are very expensive, but for world cups a large part of the audience are people who have this as a once every 10 years trip. Who blow their budget on tickets and flight, and then stay in shitty accommodations.
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figurative-trash Apr 3, 2026 +38
The entire world should boycott the American regime at this point.
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Finngrove Apr 4, 2026 +26
It is not safe to go to the US. Who knows what kind of mistake could land you in immigration detention for two weeks.
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Quikmix Apr 4, 2026 +24
boycott the US, honestly.
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wowlock_taylan Apr 3, 2026 +12
They do everything in their power to make this World Cup a failure.
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Rude-Cartographer369 Apr 3, 2026 +80
I love soccer. The World Cup has always been my favorite sporting event to watch. I’m done with FIFA now. The final straw was the stupid “peace prize” given to a war criminal. I’m not going to watch a single game, and it would be great if the entire organization just fell apart.
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uniklyqualifd Apr 3, 2026 +32
Not Dubai and 400 deaths among workers? Mind you, trump will top that
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GatoLibre Apr 3, 2026 +26
As an American, I would like to plead all non-Americans to avoid coming here. No matter how much you love football, stay safe and watch it on TV. It’s probably going to be a shitty event anyways because hardly anyone here gives a f*** about the sport. Our situation sucks. There are millions of us fighting the regime but you are not safe here. You aren’t safe from the force of trigger happy, racist incels we call “ICE”and you aren’t safe from the corrupt politicians and billionaire corporations who are going to bilk you for every dime they can.
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lawofthewilde Apr 4, 2026 +22
I would not travel to the US for any reason if I didn’t already live here. Watch it on TV. Don’t come to the US.
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Sudden_Nose9007 Apr 4, 2026 +10
Politics aside, why are we encouraging people to travel to Arlington, Texas in the middle of the summer? 😭 The weather sucks ass in July in DFW, it’s going to be well over a hundred with terrible stagnant air. Plus, Arlington has terrible construction and roads right now. Not my ideal vacation imo. There are cool places to visit in DFW, but I still feel bad for anyone traveling here.
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esspydermonkey Apr 3, 2026 +7
They cancelled 15,000 in Vancouver.
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iGoalie Apr 3, 2026 +31
> The policies of the American government in recent years have sent a clear signal to the rest of the world," Heere said. "And many of them are concerned about coming to the United States” This makes me so sad 😞 I understand, I’m just sad it’s true
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j3zuz911 Apr 3, 2026 +15
As someone who has been to several world cups in the past, (Germany 2006 was the best) I was so excited for this tournament. Despite living in the US, I haven’t purchased tickets and have made no plans to attend. The prices are too high and Trumps behavior at the Club World Cup last summer has completely turned me off to it. For potential international travelers: Please don’t come, ICE are a bunch of dangerous thugs, our infrastructure is crumbling and you will be gouged for money every second you are here. You will be visiting a country that has started a pointless war that is threatening to crash global economy. Stay home and safe. Engage with the World Cup in your local communities. I promise you it will be more fun. That is what I did for Qatar and it was great.
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RoastedPotato-1kg Apr 4, 2026 +15
this is going to be the worst world cup in the last 30 years isn't it
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dafunkmunk Apr 3, 2026 +26
It'll be kind of funny if the US hosting the world cup is a bigger flop than Qatar hosting it in the middle of a desert in stadiums hastily built by forced slave labor
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4look4rd Apr 3, 2026 +43
I can’t imagine why anyone would attend the games in the US in good conscious.
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mrbabbar Apr 4, 2026 +6
I am seriously pulling for the whole goddamned thing to fail.
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PingGuerrero Apr 3, 2026 +12
No person in the right frame of mind should ever plan on visiting this f****** shithole!
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sl0tball Apr 3, 2026 +5
Avoid the US until these clowns are out.
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shpydar Apr 3, 2026 +7
Toronto Life sees this as a normal practice and good for the people attending the games as there are now more available hotel rooms for fans that were previously being held by FIFA for their staff. >While the numbers are surprising, this is standard practice for FIFA, which tends to overbuy hotel rooms for technical staff, teams, referees and players early on. Then, when it has a better sense of who needs to be where, it trims its reservations accordingly. > >For their part, Toronto’s hoteliers seem confident they can fill the spots before the games begin: Greater Toronto Hotel Association president Sara Anghel told the Globe that demand for rooms in June is 30 per cent higher than normal. https://torontolife.com/city/fifa-has-cancelled-reservations-at-hotel-rooms-across-toronto/
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bluenosekev Apr 3, 2026 +11
Not sure who is the most corrupt, FIFA or Trump, I can see this being the worst world cup Ever. Hotel prices, car parking prices, ticket prices, getting through the airports, being in 3 different countries, Infantino and Trump = a f*** up
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wabashcanonball Apr 3, 2026 +12
If you’re a foreigner, there’s a good chance you’ll be put in a concentration camp.
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Sodacan259 Apr 4, 2026 +10
I would not travel to the US even if you paid me to. You can't spend it if you're dead in an ICE facility.
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Granum22 Apr 3, 2026 +5
These a reservations made by FIFA for FIFA staff, the Press, and stakeholders not tourists. The story also mentions that international bookings are up 100% compared to last year.
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CheezTips Apr 4, 2026 +5
WC booking are lower than expected, and regular tourism bookings in those areas are way down, too.
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urbanail1 Apr 4, 2026 +4
Can they cancel in Seattle too please.. Rates are insane and I'm staying for other reasons..
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No_Cucumber3978 Apr 3, 2026 +15
Probably to try and stop the touts, so they can "dynamically" price them themselves. 
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supercali45 Apr 3, 2026 +39
World Cup will be a fail here .. tickets are crazy expensive
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your_ancestordaddy Apr 3, 2026 +27
No it wont. Lots of people said the same thing about qatar and it worked. You are underestimating football fans.
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trashmailaccount00 Apr 3, 2026 +6
Weren't there tons of reports Back then, that a Lot of of the stadium attendies were paid indians to fill the empty stadiums?
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Calimariae Apr 3, 2026 +6
I'm part of a large football community in my country, where people travel all over the world to watch matches live. I don't know a single person who attended the World Cup in Qatar.
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mejok Apr 3, 2026 +8
Yeah. I think it is egregious but there are enough people with enough money. I’m not doing it though. I’ve been saving for years for this and have set aside about 15 grand, but I’m gonna use most of that to take my family on a big fat vacation and keep some set aside for 2030 in Spain/Portugal
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UberBostonDriver Apr 3, 2026 +5
There are a lot people with money. Airbnb bookings are up 150% during June in Dallas area. Tons of Airbnbs around Boston are getting booked for $7k+ a week during the world cup.
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PacoMahogany Apr 3, 2026 +14
They’re doing the same thing in Seattle.  They had all the hotels put giant blocks of rooms on hold and then are just cancelling with no penalty.  F*** you FIFA.
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DrFatz Apr 3, 2026 +5
I will say as a resident of these two cities, we are not f****** prepared for the influx of people coming for these games. Hell Arlington's idea for public transportation is it's own shitty Uber service called Via, which basically is a series of mini vans acting like a city bus. (There are certain "stops" designated throughout Arlington you have to f****** walk to, they will not come to you) I've used Via 3 times and each ride had drivers role play like they were playing GTA. (Both with attitude and how they drove)
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-hi-mom Apr 3, 2026 +5
The ticket prices are ridiculous hope they end up having to give them away.
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ConformistWithCause Apr 4, 2026 +4
>Bob Heere, professor of sports management at the University of North Texas, told KERA most games will likely be sold out, but the demand will come domestically rather than internationally. I did forget the thriving soccer community in *checks notes* Arlington, Texas
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hack404 Apr 4, 2026 +4
This has happened at previous World Cups. They speculatively book out vast amounts of hotel space and release to the market what they can't sell.
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Bizarrebazaars Apr 4, 2026 +3
Waiting on the same news in Seattle…
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Ok_Deer1956 Apr 4, 2026 +3
It's wild that visa costs are becoming a bigger story than the matches themselves. Moving the tournament sounds extreme, but FIFA's hotel cancellations are a pretty clear signal something's broken.
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Ok_Lingonberry2686 6 days ago +4
I heard people who booked hotels had their reservations cancelled only to find the rooms relisted at a higher price.
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