by Measured by the stadium availability cards, which are imagined on the official ticket website of the FIFA for their World Cup, there will be many stadiums in the USA in which the crowds are massaged in the stand that is exposed to the cameras.
A look at the ticket agreements for some of the more problematic games for ticket sales is created. For the collision of the South Korean Ulsan HD and Mamelodi -Sundowns by Ulsan HD and Mamelodi in South Africa, only tickets are available on two sides of the Inter & Co Stadium in Orlando. Of the two gray stands, only the area is for sale directly behind one of the gates and the cheapest tickets cost only $ 11 (£ 8).
For Mexicos Liga-Mx Pachuca against Red Bull Salzburg in Cincinnati, it can be the same on Wednesday, although the pattern is more difficult to read in this regard. There seem to be large parts of the huge Metlife stadium in New Jersey, which were also retired for the game on Thursday between Palmeiras of Brazil and the Egyptian Club al-Nahry, even though time will tell. Tickets for the opening game were still available for the opening game between Al-Nahly and Inter Miami in Hard Rock Stadium before the latter started.
Of course, the closing of parts of a stadium to save and save concessions – and then put the cameras away – is an old trick that many sports use if the ticket sales do not meet expectations. The dynamic price model of FIFA – euphemism to judge the best of the paying fan – means that the price begins to change in some cases. There were suggestions that FIFA was obliged to reimburse some of the costs of some supporters who bought their tickets early, just so that the price drops dramatically.
Until Saturday, Bayern Munich was able to show the amateur team Auckland City from New Zealand on Sunday on Sunday. When Bavaria reaches the final on July 13th in Metlife, the cheapest available ticket currently costs $ 657.71 (£ 484.86) as a resale on the official website.
The size of the crowd has the potential to be a embarrassment for FIFA, at least in the early rounds of the competition. There are many options when it comes to television reporting that a skillful match director can hide the parts of empty seats, but nothing that everyone can do to prevent the participants of the playing pictures of empty seats on social media. FIFA President Gianni Infantino insisted that his Club World Cup project was played in the larger stadiums rather than in the smaller stadiums at the next level, many of which were only MLS.
FIFA doesn’t say much when it comes to ticketing, except that the largest ticket sales in the USA were, followed by Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Canada. The sale of tickets in Great Britain is only 11th place on the list behind France, Japan, Germany, Portugal and Saudi Arabia. At a FIFA event last week, Infantino said he expected a “full stadium” for the opening game between Miami and Al-Aly, and undoubtedly efforts with discounts and other offers were made.
Pep Guardiola and Manchester City train in Florida for the strenuous summer heat, but the tournament has not proven itself for their traveling fans – Reuters/Marco Bello
It is a memory that this is a tournament that was in no way driven by the demand for the game in any way. Instead, the match fans retro were adjusted. The tournament itself, like good in the closure, is a political piece of Infantino, to make an idea of the lucrative round -fun crowd for the Elite Club game -with which one means UEFA and the Champions League primarily. The location and the suitability or otherwise for a global international tournament were largely accidental. It landed in the USA because of the proximity of the FIFA World Cup of the FIFA men next summer, but was originally intended for China in 2021.
There can be large numbers of visitors in some games, and maybe the last stages could even dream of the kind of sold -out crowds of large venues such as the Metlife, from which Infantino dreamed. But that’s not the reason why the tournament was designed. There was no opinion that the fans wanted a summer tournament with 32 teams that would lead the argument once and for all, whether Mamelodi-Sundowns were a better page than Ulsan HD or that there must be a world champion. At least not a world champion who needed four weeks and 63 games to decide.
There was no fascination that, for example, in the post-war years with the relative advantages of a style of European club football, which led to another, which led to the foundation of the European Cup.
This was completely scattered to show that FIFA and its president could create a tournament that could compete with the Champions League. One who was so completely out of Kilter with the rhythm of the club football that it took someone to say FIFA that the contracts of the players may be in the middle of the middle if they did not change the rules. It was an extraordinary demonstration of the power of a FIFA president who enforced it regardless of the legal challenge and widespread opposition.
Ideally for Infantino, most major European teams remain until the end and a selection of the South Americans. It can fit the streamer DAZN and all its sub -license when the European teams dominate, but will look like an unnecessary repetition of the Champions League for Infantino. The best chance that challengers from South America and elsewhere could have the indifference of some of these European players after a long, hard season and the punitive temperatures of the eastern USA in summer. Bad for the players, but good for the business.
The Brazilian Club Flamengo with around 33: 1 is the Brazilian Club Flamengo with about 33: 1, which is located in relation to the favorites behind nine European clubs.
In any case, on July 13th, one would have a very long chance that Infantino will explain something other than a huge triumph. It doesn’t matter how many seats are empty, how tired some of the players look or whether the richest European clubs dominate the last phases – or whether some flop in the US heat. Infantino has his tournament and everything else will be secondary.
