Astead Herndon
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we can then take those revenues, distribute them all around the world to all the national federations and develop soccer in parts of the world that requires it.
So the reason though why the prices have started high and I think are going to stay high here is because it's so spread around a massive country,
Even though there's more games than ever, 104 games across the three countries, each region doesn't have that many games.
You know, there's like eight, I think it's seven or eight games in New York, right?
That's not that many people to actually be able to go to games when you bring in diasporas and when you bring in travelers from outside of the country.
And that creates this incredible demand.
Well, I guess, you know, the Super Bowl comparison would be the final, right?
So the prices released by FIFA a couple of weeks ago, three categories.
However, since then, there has been such a strong backlash that they have now introduced basically a fourth category of $60 tickets.
Which will be only for 1.6% of tickets per game, but for every game.
But those tickets won't be for your casual fan
in America, they will be given, they will be split evenly between the two nations that are competing to the federations of those nations.
So say, for example, the final is England against Brazil.
0.8% of those tickets will be given to the English Federation to distribute to their most loyal fans, i.e.
the fans who have been to every qualification game in Albania, Serbia, blah, blah, blah, during the qualification.
But that's kind of as good as it gets.