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Anybody else dumbfounded by all these tens of thousands of people travelling across the ocean to come watch their national teams play these games here?

People from supposedly poor countries flying in, spending billions on hotels, staying for weeks, and then flying from one venue to the other?  

My kid got to go with her bf's Dad and Step-mom to the Columbia game in KC last Friday, and they dropped over 4K for four tickets alone--in addition to temporarily having to buy 2 more because 2 of them were sold twice by FIFA.  6K to get into the game.  Had Messi and Argentina been there, it would have been double that.

Anybody else dumbfounded by all these tens of thousands of people travelling across the ocean to come watch their national teams play these games here?

People from supposedly poor countries flying in, spending billions on hotels, staying for weeks, and then flying from one venue to the other? 

My kid got to go with her bf's Dad and Step-mom to the Columbia game in KC last Friday, and they dropped over 4K for four tickets alone--in addition to temporarily having to buy 2 more because 2 of them were sold twice by FIFA.  6K to get into the game.  Had Messi and Argentina been there, it would have been double that.

I am stunned myself.

I think I heard somewhere that the foreigners tickets are subsidized, while us chump Americans pay the full freight.

Not sure if accurate, or not.  But I'm doing OK --- but not World Cup game tickets OK.

It ain't the poor folks coming from those countries. Similar to Formula 1.  

It's at the very least middle class dudes coming from places like England and Scotland and France.

And the ones coming from Colombia and Brazil and Argentina tend to be above that tier.

Anybody else dumbfounded by all these tens of thousands of people travelling across the ocean to come watch their national teams play these games here?

People from supposedly poor countries flying in, spending billions on hotels, staying for weeks, and then flying from one venue to the other? 

My kid got to go with her bf's Dad and Step-mom to the Columbia game in KC last Friday, and they dropped over 4K for four tickets alone--in addition to temporarily having to buy 2 more because 2 of them were sold twice by FIFA.  6K to get into the game.  Had Messi and Argentina been there, it would have been double that.

I mean, just because a country might struggle doesn’t mean the top 20,000 people who live there are.

And as I learned in college, it was pretty interesting that my friend who seemed the least fiscally responsible also happened to have the nicest stuff.