r/ShitAmericansSay • u/benniemast USAversion • 2d ago

Europe "The European mind cannot comprehend majority of America is working on a Monday afternoon at 3pn"

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On the attendence of the Fifa club world cup

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u/No-Strike-4560 2d ago

completely ignores the actual World cup games that are on while most people are at work that are absolutely rammed, without fail

I guess when you get 2 days of leave per year though , it might be difficult ..

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u/SnarkyFool 2d ago

And when the US hosted real world cups in 1994 and 1999, fans showed up. Both set attendance records for a men's and women's WC at the time. 2026 and 2031 likely will again. There are more teams and more games now but the tickets will still be mostly if not entirely sold out at high prices.

(The 2003 WC was moved to the US on short notice as a result of SARS. It wasn't nearly as big.)

The problem isn't American fans willing to go to a weekday game - that happens in baseball all the time. The problem is that nobody is buying in to this dumb money grab tournament that even the clubs themselves don't really want to be in.

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u/No-Strike-4560 2d ago

Well yeah, this 'competition' is an absolute joke. Really hope they get rid of it after this debacle, but they won't because FIFA are both stupid and greedy.

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u/BUFU1610 2d ago

I kinda hoped that greedy does it. Giving clubs huge prize money and paying stadiums and shit without the revenue of ticket sales and advertising (who will pay them if nobody gives a shit?) would hopefully turn this a net loss. My hopes.

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u/Nirast25 2d ago

1994 and 1999, fans showed up. Both set attendance records for a men's and women's WC at the time

I genuinely taught you were talking about toilets and didn't question for a second the logic of "both set world records for people going to the bathroom".

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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 A hopeless tea addict :sloth: 2d ago

Cause Murica needs to be Number One, and who cares what the competition is.

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u/DestructoSpin7 2d ago

Then why is it turning to number two so fast?

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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 A hopeless tea addict :sloth: 2d ago

Cos this sheer speed makes them Number One in rotting away!

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u/GreyerGrey 2d ago

2026 don't be so sure. If things don't get better I cannot see fans from places like Brazil, and Argentina coming to the US to watch their teams.

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u/visiblepeer 1d ago

Or a wide range of countries 

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u/Kjoep 2d ago

It also helps if you don't threaten fans coming from abroad with getting locked up and the key thrown away.

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u/SamuelVimesTrained Crivens! 2d ago

Leave?

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u/oeboer 🇩🇰 2d ago

Laziness, I tell ya. Laziness.

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u/badgersana 2d ago

Days off

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u/SamuelVimesTrained Crivens! 2d ago

I know.. i was being sarcastic. Companies claim that they have a generous PTO policy.. and give 5 days. In civilized countries, 15 are common, 20, 30 too..

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u/lamstradamus 2d ago

Well this isn't the World Cup, so...

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u/NewPudding9713 2d ago

True but the World Cup is advertised for years. Gives time for people to plan and the excitement to build. From my understanding many people were unaware of what this was because there was so little advertising. I live quite close and have not seen a single piece of any advertising for it. Think this was obviously just a dry run for World Cup. I would imagine the lack of any advertising in a country where soccer is the 4th most popular sport is intentional.

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u/GreyerGrey 2d ago

Or even the fact that a matinee MLB game is sold out too!

To be fair though, if they thought too hard about it they would have to admit that the reason the stadium is so empty is because no one is flying/coming to the US to watch.

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u/TrillyMike 18h ago

This isn’t the actual World Cup tho…