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[The World Cup Guide @World_Cup_Guide]

Enjoyed speaking with a representative of @maisfutebol as part of their research for this article on the Qatar 2022 World Cup

[maisfutebol @maisfutebol]

Como vai ser o Mundial do Qatar para os adeptos?
https://t.co/wwPK0cNYmv

[Ben Steiner @BenSteiner00]

World Naked Bike Ride Toronto takes place on June 13 at Coronation Park — right next to the free FIFA FanFest at Fort York, which is expected to draw around 20,000 fans each day of the tournament from June 11 to July 19.

Fun.

[The World Cup Guide @World_Cup_Guide]

@UpAndAdamsShow @heykayadams Kansas City will def leave a positive impression on visitors this summer. @FWC26KansasCity has been very active w/ plans & ensuring there’s no shortage of activities. It can’t be a coincidence that England, Netherlands, Algeria & Argentina all chose it as a base camp either 👏

[Ujwal @UjwalKS]

Hello. Firstpost is looking for experienced football writer who will be in USA for World Cup. Someone who has covered previous WCs and can write at intersection of football, culture and politics. If you fit the bill, please get it in touch...if not, RT for good karma. Thanks.

[Phil Delves @phildelves]

I bring sad news.

World Cup documentation from FIFA confirms that we won't see any of these kits during the group stage. 😭😭

[Pitch Yarns @pitch_yarns]

736 men arrived in Germany in 2006.

Only 4 remain in 2026.

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

No more delayed flag?
Fifa confirms enhanced offside tech for World Cup

🎧 Assistant gets an audio alert if a player is 10cm+ offside, and can raise flag immediately

Plus:
⚽️ 'Out of Bounds' technology
📺 3D line of sight goalkeeper view for offside

👇
https://t.co/9EfoxwvECx

[kap kap @kapkap42]

The World Cup team with the largest decline in average ticket prices over the past 7, 14, and 30 days?

Canada.

Not what I would have expected. They've gone from one of the pricier teams to now being in the bottom half of the 48 team field sorted by average ticket price. That has got to be a 1st for a host nation.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The same World Cup seat is $700 on FIFA's official site and $200 on SeatGeek right now. That gap is not a glitch.

Dynamic pricing solved the upside for FIFA. Demand climbs, the price climbs, $60 group seats turn into $700 matchups, the US opener hit $1,940 at face. The downside is where the system breaks. The second FIFA cuts an official price below what someone already paid, it invites refund demands, chargebacks, and a consumer-protection fight across three host countries.

So the official number cannot fall. It is a published price attached to thousands of fans who bought higher, which turns every markdown into a liability.

Read it as economics instead of conspiracy and it sharpens. FIFA overpriced, then built a channel where lowering the real price is legally radioactive. The secondary market is the only place left to discover what the seats actually clear at.

Those contiguous blocks landing on SeatGeek at $198, $228, $230 are FIFA's true demand curve leaking out where the official site can keep pretending it doesn't exist.

The elegant part: FIFA's own resale marketplace takes 15% from the buyer and 15% from the seller. So even as inventory clears below face, FIFA collects a toll on the way down. They earn on the markdown they can't announce.

Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde settling near $200 while the official page holds the line tells you the market-clearing price was set months ago. FIFA just can't be the one to say it out loud.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[Jimmy King @Jimmyking35]

Working on a big article that lists all of the best places to watch World Cup matches and all the events surrounding the tournament here in Philadelphia this Summer

If you know of, or are hosting an event/watch party this summer, please send over to me so I can include!⚽️🏟️🏆

[The World Cup Guide @World_Cup_Guide]

@AdamCrafton_ True - and makes me wonder with FIFA+ already nested in DAZN and SURJ injecting $1B, if DAZN starts to look less like a traditional broadcast partner and more like FIFA's outsourced "in-house" engine, especially as we progress to 2034 🇸🇦

[The World Cup Guide @World_Cup_Guide]

FIFA+ has all of these World Cup documentaries and also a lot of old match replays. For free. They partnered with DAZN for access via their app

[Jake. @YedIin]

Learned today that FIFA has produced an official documentary for every World Cup dating back to 1954, full of archival footage in 35mm film (until 2002). And they’re all available for free! Know what I’ll be watching for the next week and a half

[Total Football @TotalFootball]

🚨 New World Cup rule in action:

Hlynsson 🇮🇸 took more than 10 secs to leave the field during his substitution. As a result, his replacement had to wait a full minute before entering.

In that minute, Japan 🇯🇵 scored.

[The World Cup Guide @World_Cup_Guide]

Save this as a spot to watch matches in Kansas City if you’re visiting

[FIFA World Cup 26 Kansas City @FWC26KansasCity]

Arsenal supporters out in full force at Johnny’s Tavern in P&L. This is the Soccer Capital of America. ❤️⚽️

#WeAreKansasCity

[kap kap @kapkap42]

Something strange is happening with FIFA World Cup ticket availability this afternoon.

A bunch of matches just saw huge drops in primary inventory on FIFA's Last Minute Sales portal.

A few examples from this morning to now:
USA vs Paraguay: 2,000 to ~400
Uzbekistan vs Congo DR: ~2,000 to ~700
Canada vs Bosnia-Herzegovina: ~1,300 to ~400

These are matches that have had inventory sitting there for weeks that wasn't moving...

[Soccer with Doug, by Doug Roberson @SoccerwithDoug]

A favor to ask of my friends in Atlanta and Georgia.
If you are native of 1 of the 48 countries that will compete in the World Cup, and want to share why your country is awesome, shoot a 1-minute video and email it to me at [email protected]
I'll include it in my capsules

[Alex @alexlargs]

If Netflix put this up folk would be raving about it.
I was expecting just 30mins of highlights youd already seen but it was absolutely brilliant.
Roll on America 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

This might be the most Balkan thing I've ever seen.

[Collins Okinyo @bedjosessien]

I love this ingeneous concept of the last dinner before the FIFA World Cup by Senegal 🇸🇳

The Teranga Lions were hosted a farewell dinner right on the pitch at the Stade Abdoulaye Wade in Diamniadio, Senegal.

The players, technical staff, and administrative crew gathered for this send-off meal to boost team spirit before departing the World Cup.
@soka25east

[Netflix @netflix]

In 1970, Brazil took the field to make history. Relive the lineup of the most exciting teams of all time and see how every position, every number, and every choice contributed to its legend.

Brazil '70: The Third Star is now on Netflix.