The only soccer team I’m a real fan of is the Fuck Fifa Team.
The entire downtown Toronto area is completely covered in FIFA shit, with soccer fields in front of city hall and huge FIFA photo ops everywhere. There’s always a huge crowd around them. I don’t get how it’s still so popular
Well, unfortunately, that’s just the way it is. If people would sacrifice their own entertainment just a few times for the greater good, organizations like FIFA wouldn’t exist. Unfortunately, though, they don’t—not even when it comes to things as utterly dispensable as sporting events. The result is the world we live in today.
Edit: On a smaller scale, you can actually observe this effect even on Lemmy as well: just look at how many large communities have imposed the absurd “no politics” rule on themselves. Obviously, this rule is so broadly defined that it opens the door to arbitrary censorship and can only lead to arbitrariness, since there is nothing that isn’t political in one way or another. Yet people insist they don’t want to be confronted with reality—not on showerthoughts, not on asklemmy, and not on many other communities. They then say, “Post in a political community,” meaning somewhere where no one will see it. That’s just how the world is, that’s how the majority of people are, and that’s why we have to live the way we do.
Sorry for the rant.
Jesus Christ they could have just said “60 lucky fans got free tickets due to our mess up, enjoy!” And gotten just the tiniest shred of good press about it. But no, they have to be complete fuck ups and ask for them to actually pay.
What makes you think they want good press? Their current strategy of openly embracing corruption and greed has been working out pretty well for them, and the fans are still giving them hundreds or thousands of dollars.
But a poor might get in!
The mispriced tickets were sold through the official World Cup site on 21 May, Fifa said in an email message to buyers. That date was more than three months after Fifa president Gianni Infantino said all 104 World Cup games had sold out.
So it’s okay for YOU to be dishonest, but…
Yeah, that’s off. Especially taken in conjunction with this:
The tickets were “allocated at no charge [0 USD] due to a prior payment issue during the checkout process,” Fifa said
So a tranche of impossible tickets shows up for sale on the World Cup site a full three months after the head of FIFA announced the games were sold out, the one guy who would know for sure but somehow did not, and are then very quietly made available much later on a single day in such a way that the buyers are making what looks like a standard purchase of tickets, except the system is also just as bizarrely set to charge them $0.
Do people actually keep checking on the official site instead of resellers for available tickets long after they’re supposed to have been sold out?
Huh. I don’t know enough about how FIFA ticket sales work to know with any certainty, but at first glance it looks almost like a plan that worked exactly as it was supposed to, except that some people who were not the intended recipients lucked into it as well.
It could also be something FIFA did not set up directly, but an insider or group of insiders who figured out a way to set aside some tickets, and now FIFA’s collecting after the fact.
Or it could all just be a magically lucky series of coincidences. I really don’t know but it’s hinky as hell.
Do people actually keep checking on the official site instead of resellers for available tickets long after they’re supposed to have been sold out?
Of course not! They have the bots do it.
Fifa seems to be composed of complete scumbags.
always has been
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All my homies hate FIFA
Soccer is for the people not the fascists
What about the literal thousands of tickets that have been given away for free for greasing Palms and nepotism etc… part of the legit reason for increasing prices (not the reason for the insane prices though). Do they have to pay for the tickets? a percent of the ticket prices? Should they even offer a donation?
Charity??
Not a fucking chance. I hope I’m alive when FIFA competitor takes over and fucks FIFA 60 feet under.
“I’m sorry, it’s against my policy to reward your mistakes with my money. My hands are tied, sorry, it’s the policy.”
It’s times like this that I wish I gave a shit about soccer. You can’t boycott something you were never interested in in the first place.
I was only interested when thousands of fans blew on their vuvuzelas and made it sound like there was a swarm of hornets in the arena. Then all of the running around makes sense.
Why not ask them to buy two tickets while they’re at it?
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I bet they will invallidate them if they don’t pay
Fifa has canceled World Cup tickets issued to about 60 fans who mistakenly got them for free because of a website error, and soccer’s governing body is now asking for them to be paid in full.
No, first they cancel them, then they tell you to pay
