Rising Ticket Prices at FIFA Club World Cup: A Lesson?

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00:00Is this a failure from FIFA? Is the pricing is a foreshadowing disaster for

00:06the club World Cup? What is your take? They're abusing the prices when it

00:09comes to any football match. I think the prices have gone up like a lot compared

00:14to what they were three four years ago and I'm glad that this is happening

00:17because FIFA needs to learn a lesson, assume needs to learn a lesson, the

00:21people in charge of football needs to learn a lesson, that it's not everything

00:24about that money. I know it's messy and when Messi comes to any stadium people

00:27resell their tickets for a massive amount of money but now you can see

00:32$55 so it's a great opportunity for you to go see Messi for $55. I do think that

00:38it's good, it's good for the future of football that they see that it's not

00:42always about selling tickets at a bigger price, it's about bringing fans into the

00:47stadium. Nick, how important it is for the US soccer culture at large for this

00:51tournament to be successful and to get people excited for this and the World

00:56Club that is coming a year from now. Yeah exactly this is kind of seen right now as

00:59like a precursor to the World Cup which is obviously gonna get even more

01:02attention than this than this is going to but what you have is teams like Real

01:06Madrid, Manchester City, these huge name brands, these household names I should

01:12say coming here and playing against our local teams that's obviously gonna be

01:15great for the tournament, great for the sport here in the country there's a lot of

01:18growing that needs to happen. I would have liked to have seen more MLS teams but

01:21obviously you know three is pretty good that's amazing right you can't ask for

01:25more than that so we have to grow the game. I think as much as we want to get

01:29on Inter Miami's case for how they got into the tournament I think they have

01:35done a great job as a team bringing Messi and expanding the MLS as a brand

01:40throughout the world. You don't go to other countries and see people wearing too

01:43many MLS jerseys but you'll see Manchester United jerseys in Africa you'll see

01:47you name it right all over the world so we have a lot of work to do we got a lot

01:51of growth to do and I think this is gonna be huge and yeah there's also the

01:54whole point about organization and running tournaments seamlessly and

01:59that's gonna obviously help too for the World Cup coming up.