Tariq Panja
speaker
632 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Tariq Panja’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You've got the most famous people playing the biggest sport or the biggest cultural expression of humanity at the moment.
and then playing at this stage, which is the stage that the entire world tunes in for.
So, in other words, this is big.
These prices are eye-wateringly expensive for average football fans, average World Cup fans, people who go to tournaments.
So we are talking three times to ten times more than they cost in Qatar, which was already the most expensive World Cup.
And I'll give you an example.
The World Cup final, the most expensive ticket...
For the category one, which is the top category outside of VIP, for Qatar was about $1,000.
For this World Cup, the ticket costs $10,000.
That is ludicrous.
And fans around the world have been tearing their hair out over these prices.
How can we be expected to follow our teams at these prices?
So the prices that I'm talking about are in the hundreds of dollars to the thousands of dollars.
They're expensive because the World Cup is where it is, particularly in the United States of America.
There is a sense that FIFA can generate greater returns because there is a wealthier population, quite frankly, in the US that can spend higher.
hundreds of dollars, if not thousands of dollars per game on World Cup tickets.
There's also, for the first time in the history of this tournament, something called dynamic pricing.
Those of us who have booked flights or hotels might be used to this, how on Monday the flight was $200 and suddenly you waited two days and that's now $500.
So annoying.
FIFA have thought, this will be bright.
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