Alexander Abnos

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165 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 May

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Football Weekly · Is the USA ready for the World Cup? – Football Weekly podcast · 13 May 2026 podcast

And then by the second game, most of them were no longer wearing those shirts or being made to remove them.

And the makeup of the crowd changed in a very noticeable way from games one to

to two, and then also to three.

The difference now is that Iran cannot send their own people from the regime, people from Iran cannot travel to the US in the vast majority of cases, to try to affect the makeup of the crowd in the same way.

So I think probably the Iranian football head was looking at the situation saying, FIFA, help us out here, because

I think it's very likely that should they play in Los Angeles, especially, it's going to be sort of ground zero for a lot of political displays.

I've heard from people that have managed to snag tickets that they consider to be not totally ridiculous.

So I don't know anybody that's shelled out.

We've heard stories from other people that I don't know personally that have shelled out thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars for tickets.

And to those people I say, good on you for having the money, I guess.

But Gianni Infantino had a quote the other day at the Milken conference.

This made the rounds because it was just so...

self-evidently ridiculous that he said that you cannot get into any game in the U.S., a college game is what he was referring to, but he's saying a college or professional game for less than $300.

And it is so...

The reason I say it's so self-evidently ridiculous is because every single person, every single American that has lived in the U.S.

for any amount of time, that has ever gone to a sports game anywhere in the U.S.

knows that is just false.

And a FIFA spokesperson was telling me that he was referring specifically to college football and professional football, and I think even in that case...

it doesn't apply.

Like the only game that might apply to is the college football national championship game.

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