Fifa WC 2026; no excitement at all?

[Gamisch]

The biggest sport event takes place in the " hottest country on earth" to qoute..someone realy famous .

Yet, there seems to be hardly any enthusiasm. How do you guys feel about it as you will be hosting this event with like two weeks?

I'll geuss we'll have to start creating an official world cup thread soon?

 

[Bible_Belt]

I listened to an interview today with a professor of turf science at the University of Tennessee. They put him in charge of the grass. The guy has a PhD in lawns. He was saying that the drainage system on the field has to be hooked to a vacuum pump. If it rains a lot, they can suck the water out of the field.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

Oh there will be excitement alright

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Guys, just think - if you learn enough software languages this can be your contribution to humanity!

 

[BillyPilgrim]

He was saying that the drainage system on the field has to be hooked to a vacuum pump. If it rains a lot, they can suck the water out of the field.

They will have to use their hands to do that though. Not congruent with the sport of soccer.

 

[eli77]

It's popping in Florida but its all about the satellite events!

 

[Clockwerk50]

I lost all interest when they changed the number of nations eligible for the tournament from 32 to 64. It went from an exclusive, once every four years event showcasing only the best teams to something far less special with a lot of participation trophies going around.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Hard to be excited when most of the US games start at 10pm or later due to their insistance on playing on the West Coast.

Plus they will do what they normally do...show a complete ineptitude to finish glorious scoring chances in a way that is hard to fathom, or many times, even get a shot at all.

 

[sevbucmash]

It's not affordable, I hear. Plus there is zero excitement on TV. I remember World Cup in Russia. Plenty of excitement on TV. Free travel for international guests, if you come to watch FIFA from another country, you could travel between cities for free on plane, train or bus. Here, we obviously have paid only travel, at that premium because of the events and all the traffic, and tickets to games themselves are in the unaffordable category.

What is absolutely ridiculous is that games will be hosted in U.S.A., Canada, Mexico.

A poor fan from say Brazil, who sold all his stuff to come and see games, won't be able to afford to travel all these countries. In Russia you had people from Brazil and Paraguay and other South American countries who sold all their belongings to come and see the games and they could afford it.

I'm still waiting to see FIFA on TV, I'll be watching and even placing some bets. My advice guys, register with bookmakers now, they often give freebets for guessing match outcomes and for registering early, etc.

 

[eli77]

The reselling market is going to be huge for tickets and they are still looking for volunteers

 

[BillyPilgrim]

The reselling market is going to be huge for tickets and they are still looking for volunteers

Those robot dogs will sniff out a resell in a microsecond and will bite off your leg before you can poop your pants.

 

[RoadKing_Rabbit]

The biggest sport event takes place in the " hottest country on earth" to qoute..someone realy famous .

Yet, there seems to be hardly any enthusiasm. How do you guys feel about it as you will be hosting this event with like two weeks?

I'll geuss we'll have to start creating an official world cup thread soon?

Well, from an "average bloody yank crost' the pond," (jahahaha) I'm speaking from a country that has a unique sport that everyone in it associates with the word "football" to the point of also believing that's all there is to the word.

In this same country, id wager only a fraction even know the rules (admittedly, I knew the rules of *real* football and indoor soccer by 12. Long before learning about American footballs rules at the ripe age of 36.) of baseball. Which is apparently "America's pastime."

Heck, I'm convinced people in America can't tell you what an American is. Don't want to wax TOO political here, but therein lies the crux of the matter. If it's not extreme right politics or extreme left politics getting involved in supporting an event, it will not get much traction.

What I'M personally excited for is meeting visitors! Tourism is about to be BIG here and I'd love to slash through some stereotypes about "dumb Americans." Just this weekend I sang some karaoke with people from Tokyo. They LOVED green day for some reason and were simulating a micro "mosh!" Said they were here to see the world cup. Fun times. Hopefully. Unfortunately, I can understand all too well how other nations come to the conclusions they do.

We can only do what we can do. I'd of course like to see more excitement about it as well. I heard about the 'rumor' in 2018 that we'd be hosting some matches and was already planning on seeing a match in person... Now less so. Admittedly due to lack of peer enthusiasm. We're more focused on Iran, Gaza, Israel, Ukraine and whether we're in the right body. In short, everyone's business but our own. No surprise at all there's a lack of excitement when one puts it in perspective like this.

More of an agreement with your observations than an A2A. I'm just as puzzled. And then when I think about it longer. Oh yeah. I live HERE. That's why.

 

[eli77]

Those robot dogs will sniff out a resell in a microsecond and will bite off your leg before you can poop your pants.

What the hell are you talking about?

 

[Rainman4707]

I lost all interest when they changed the number of nations eligible for the tournament from 32 to 64. It went from an exclusive, once every four years event showcasing only the best teams to something far less special with a lot of participation trophies going around.

Yeah, i will watch the England games because they are on not to late, and i watched most of the France game last night, but things will not get interesting until the knockout stage.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

I'm all about watching the games as I grew up playing and watching soccer and played it at a fairly high level.

Would I spend money to go to these games? Hell no?

FIFA is tone deaf, talking about the World Cup is going to put cities like NYC and LA "on the map".

What? Give me a break... Maybe that works in these small countries that nobody goes to, but the US doesn't need to be "put on the map", and especially not two of the biggest cities for tourists in the country.