Interesting.

Likely some kind of BOD stupidity.

I get that they were in a tough spot, working so hard to make the gains they have made in the US market.

But, at the very least they should have been gaming how to move US sites to other countries since May of last year and committed to doing it by late summer.

In Philadelphia for the 4th of July.

will have to return the absurdly named FIFA Peace Prize?...I do hope FIFA is globally ridiculed for awarding a sadistic war-monger a "peace" prize...

It blends in well with the other cheap crap he has there.

So, start the downward slide of these hotels and then they will be easier to buy out.

Or, easier to... control...?

Or, FIFA is just going to screw the entire event over because they are getting flak from other nations.

Who can say?

or maybe some entire teams, will not want to participate.

That is still not outside of the realm of possibility.

There is still time to reschedule in Canada and Mexico.

When teams and or their fans can't get to games it shouldn't be held in the US.

And soccer fans of the world are forced to pay for it.

will tell you that FIFA is the world's 2nd most corrupt criminal organization.........with U.S. Republicans taking first place..........

Nothing personal, it's just business.

Or so I'm hoping.

... they should have done it already, like LAST YEAR. Instead they doubled down on their bet on Chump.

The simple answer is that people aren't buying tickets, they won't come to the US venues. World Cup is going to lose a ton of cash on this, and hopefully there will be a change in FIFA leadership after this.

not to the leopard!!!!

and I agree with them, I'm wondering if this ties in to Thiel wanting Vance to pull the 25. One more nail in the coffin of the orange shitgibbon.

UPDATE: Not Thiel but Scott McConnell of the American Conservative Magazine.

FIFA held 10,000 rooms and realized they only needed 8,000. For the hotels, this actually frees up rooms to sell to regular fans at (likely) even higher rates.

Major organizations like FIFA often place massive "block" holds on hotel rooms years in advance to ensure they aren't priced out. As the event schedule becomes clearer, they release the excess rooms they no longer need for staff, media, or dignitaries.

And quite possibly the answer to the mysterious cancelations.

Makes a lot of sense.

But given what is going on with the Visa issues for a number of countries, there might be less of a foreign fan crowd understandably expected and thus yet another blow to the U.S. tourist and hospitality industry.

It's unlikely that the difference will be made up domestically to match the optimistic number of reservations.

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with a lot of overlapping events, they probably factored that in as well to reserve for these games. But it will be interesting to see how many even attempt to go those other events given the fuel costs, etc. The hotels might be forced to go cheaper than planned to get people out in this environment!

Don't you know we need to talk about President MFer more?

because of pressure from the various teams. Trumps ice goons, denying visas to teams from certain countries, refusing to guarantee they won't be taken by ice, lack of ticket sales...no games will be played in the U.S., they will be moved to other countries for the safety of the players, the fans, the owners of those teams.

nothing is perfect in reality, and there are things I don't like.

But at present, I feel unsafe in security and economically. The US have insane persons over the government, congress, courts, intelligence agencies, law enforcement's and religion. These nut cases are destroying the USA inside and out.

I truly understand where the FIFA is coming from.

And the city allocated hundreds and hundreds of millions towards the events this summer. I was even considering renting my home out on Airbnb since I’m close to the stadiums and Independence Hall. It seems the US Federal government has done just about everything possible to make the summer less lucrative than anticipated.

Hours long airport delays, and Nazi storm troopers to greet foreign visitors, a war in Iran which not only will increase the cost of air fare, but, makes terrorism more likely, and the Pig insulting basically everyone else on the planet.

and between the FIFA matches, the MLB All Star Game in July -



and the Liberty Medal presentation to Pope Leo XIV the day before July 4th (with a live video feed of his acceptance), it's gonna be nuts, and I can imagine 45 making it even more nuts.

It's the non-US teams that will suffer for this. Their families and their fans are going to stay home and watch it on TV rather than deal with our shit here in the US. Plus it's dangerous for the teams themselves and their coaches, while they are here.

Even if nothing happens, they still will be worried about it. It's going to ruin everyone's enjoyment of the games.

There will be a revolt among the America First crowd that they have to host the remaining tournament. Interest will dip for sure. And foreigner bashing will go up.

We'd get banned from every international league in every sport, if that happened.

or are afraid to do so. Is FIFA planning to relocate everything to another venue outside the US? I wonder. Could it be done on such short notice?
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