Alexander Abnos

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

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

Is that an acceptable answer?

I mean, I will say I think I understand where the New Jersey government is coming from.

They were sort of grandfathered into this deal to host World Cup games without any real plan for how this was not going to cost the state and its taxpayers a huge amount of money.

So they needed to make it up somehow, and they decided to make it up that way.

So I have a degree of understanding for why things played out the way they did as far as that goes.

I don't know if...

a $150 train ticket is necessarily the most clean and best way to go about recouping some of that money, especially considering that other cities in other ways have shown that you do not have to necessarily submit to every single thing FIFA wants you to do in order to extract the most revenue possible out of the tournament.

We've seen in Atlanta,

Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a huge, amazing arena that is famed throughout the United States for, even by U.S.

standards, to have very cheap concessions.

Snacks, Cokes, the amount that you pay for them inside the stadium is almost exactly what you would pay outside the stadium.

And that's a rarity in the U.S.

And FIFA came in, from what I've been told, and said, hey, you actually need to charge...

Way more for all of the beer and all of the sodas and all the snacks if you're going to want to host World Cup games.

And Mercedes-Benz Stadium just said, no, we're not going to do that because then we would not be Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

And they won that.

And snacks in Mercedes-Benz Stadium are going to be cheaper than they are for any other World Cup venue.

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