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Ravin In Flight said:
Fair enough.

"Fifa’s main difficulty appears to be finding buyers for the most expensive tickets. The ‘category one’ prices range from $160 (£110) to $900 (£623) and so are clearly unaffordable for a vast number of local people in South Africa. "

How much were tickets to a lower bowl game for a Jazz playoff game? How many Jazz games were not sold out during the playoffs? I'm just saying... $160 to $900 bucks isn't that much. Tickets are sold to locals and non-locals. I'm sure there are millions of soccer fans who could afford those tickets.
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I was talking more about hotel and air fare prices. Both of which, from what ive read, are outrageous.

Also, I really hope you understand the difference between selling out a Jazz game and selling out every world cup game.

Jazz game- 20,000 seats in the teams home town for 5 playoff games.

World Cup- 43,000-91,000 seats thousands of miles away from many teams for 48 matches.

I dont see you arguing that the NCAA tournament is meaningless. Most of those arenas look less than half full the first two rounds and arent full until the final four.
 
Well, why did the World Cup committee choose South Africa as a host country then? Isn't that laughable with all of these problems?
 
Qman said:
The real irony is that we beat Spain last year and should have beaten Brazil.
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Exactly. I was in Barcelona, watching the US beat Spain. Great game. The Brazil game showed a complete lack of composure.


Here's hoping USMNT is better this year.
 
Who called you names, Arch? I didn't. I don't remember anyone calling names.

Don't march in here and to tell us why soccer sucks, then pretend like you were victimized or that you were merely trying to generate a genuine dialogue about World Cup attendance.

Oh, and regarding my spelling mistake: You win. Go get yourself a cookie.
 
Ravin all I have to say is I love basketball- but soccer is the biggests sport in the world. World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world too.
 
Relating to cost, my friend is going to SA. His total cost is right around $13,000, which is pretty cheap comparatively. Travel agents are selling discount packages starting at $20k.

Yeah, South Africa was an interesting choice by the committee. But WC gets most of its revenue (at least 90% of the 3.5 billion or so) from TV, sponsorships, and merchandise. So I think they'll do just fine from a financial perspective.
 
Bronco70 said:
Who called you names, Arch? I didn't. I don't remember anyone calling names.

Don't march in here and to tell us why soccer sucks, then pretend like you were victimized or that you were merely trying to generate a genuine dialogue about World Cup attendance.

Oh, and regarding my spelling mistake: You win. Go get yourself a cookie.
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Did you read the thread by chance? When did I say that soccer sucks? I'm saying the world cup is a joke, at least this years. Again, why did the committee choose such a terrible host country? There's not even one single game sold out for it!
 
I'm not a soccer fan at all, but even I will stop and watch this "joke". And then I'll realize what I'm doing and find something else.

Since I don't follow soccer, I am wondering if one of you fans can help me out. When did Flea start playing soccer?

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Let me ask you guys a question. Would you think that the NFL was a joke if they selected a country to host the Super Bowl where it was either a) too expensive to fly to b) too far away c) too dangerous to go to and d) didn't sell out because of that? It wouldn't make football a joke, but I'm sure it would make the NFL a joke.
 
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