Sam Fenwick
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941 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Sam Fenwick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On a $10,990 final ticket relisted on FIFA's own platform at, say, $20,000, FIFA collects $6,000 from a single transaction on a ticket it had already sold once.
Four tickets behind the goal for the July 19th final in New Jersey appeared on FIFA's own marketplace at approximately $2.3 million each.
That's the secondary market at its most extreme.
The question for Jim is whether FIFA's pricing strategy created the conditions for it.
Every time that ticket changes hands, FIFA takes another cut.
Let's see where resale tickets leave our scoreboard.
Matt.
You're listening to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.
I'm Sam Fenwick, and today we're following the money behind FIFA's billions.
But here's the thing about ticket prices.
They're not FIFA's main business.
Broadcast rights, sponsorship.
These are where the serious money is.
And behind all this is a revenue machine on a scale that most people don't expect.
Amir Samoji is the founder of Sports Value, a sports marketing consultancy in Brazil.
His firm has produced the most detailed independent analysis of FIFA's revenues for this tournament.
7 billion to 11 billion in just one four-year cycle.
How?
More teams, more matches, more countries.
More matches mean more broadcast rights deals, and the broadcast deals are enormous.
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