Leander Schaerlaeckens

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

In the leadership that's overseeing this thing, we are run by a regime that will change on a whim and that answers to one man and that man is going to do what he's going to do depending on the last thing he was told or saw or heard.

So it feels especially volatile.

So there's just a million different things to worry about.

The ability for people to come to this World Cup, I mean, aside from the cost of them, aside from the cost of travel and the hotels, is will people be allowed into this country?

Will people be allowed out of this country for that matter?

Once they get here, will they be allowed to leave?

Will it feel like a World Cup?

The organizers have kind of been boasting that this is going to feel like 104 Super Bowls in 39 days because it's such a big event and they're kind of trying to

put it on an American scale.

But what you see at the Super Bowl, by and large, is that it's only doctors and lawyers and executives who can afford to go to the thing, right?

And so is it really going to be that celebration of the sport that we all hope to see?

Or is it just going to be fully gentrified and a 1% World Cup?

That's what I'm really worried about.

I think in that case, though, more tickets would probably clear down to what is a reasonable market value because it feels like there's a decent amount of games where there's still inventory that hasn't been sold at all.

A few days ago, there were still tickets to be had for the U.S.

opener against Paraguay that just hadn't sold in the first place, but they were going at $1,120 apiece.

which is extraordinary.

I know some people that are going to go to the World Cup.

I know a lot of them that aren't because either they don't have the disposable income or it just isn't worth their while at that cost.

Because for a family of four, best case scenario, you're looking at $1,000 to get yourself to a game.

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