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No, this is Mussolini 1934 World Cup. Fans are priced out of attending and watching the games. The host cities all suck, horrid public transport, stadiums not walkable, and people are jacking the prices of public transport to the stadium (e.g., the bus from Penn Station to Metlife cost $125). You need to take domestic/international flights around NA (and pay associated car rentals) to follow your team and watch the game you actually want to watch. They cheated Palestine with dodgy penalty out of Qualification. The temperature might literally be too hot.

I plan to touch grass and go multi-day backpacking hiking trip this summer.

Nope, this is akin to the olympics being hosted in Nazi Germany.

Was never a sports person, too much into international politics.

I am not watching it. Can't bring myself to. I never held FIFA in any high regard. But the recent events like the FIFA peace prize and blocking of the Somali referee from entering the US have made me regret that I ever liked this sport. I am used to seeing sport organiasations being spineless and corrupt but this is a whole another level.

The world cup was a magical event for me as a kid. I used to watch every game. A big natural disaster prevented me from following Russia 2018 and I’ve just lost any interest in international football at all since then. This world cup? No way. FIFA has managed to suck out the internationalist soul of the event. It’s a hollow, corporatized circus act and it’s now become a stark reminder of the injustices facing people in their daily lives.

Also, footballers just…suck nowadays. There’s few R9s, Ronaldinhos, Kakas, Baggios, and Zidanes anymore. The best players are statpadding blockheads such as Erling Haaland or speed merchants ie Mbappe. Every attacker has to be a pressing machine, if they even attempt to dribble the ball in an uncoventional they’re clowned on by tiktokteens if they lose the ball. No flair, no elegance, no fun just ‘profit’ driven play.

I'm less in the world cup mood than I was four years ago. I also don't like watching sports that much unless I'm watching with others. So I'm going to watch my country's games in a gay bar, so a more progressive crowd.

All those talks about boycotting Qatar, but I hear a lot less about this world cup, which is very hypocritical. It shows that it was not about human rights last time. Last time I boycotted by not talking about the WC, unless it was to criticize it, this time I'll mostly do the same. I'll also not watch a lot of games, but that is mostly because they are in the middle of the night for me lol

I still dont understand why its held in the usa. NOBODY in the us cares about football, they call football something completely different for no reason. Like whos gonna buy tickets for it? Idk it just seems dumb. That being said i might tune in once in a while since i dont watch football myself lol and im currently more interested in nba finals. Im with chairman wemby but if ny wins ill still be happy

oh great, time to hear people yelling outside in groups at 4AM on a weekday because their team was better at kicking the ball around than other team.

Even if I was going to, a lot of the games are at fuck you o'clock due to the time zones. Also, they're getting too big. Too many teams.

The world cup is the only sporting event I genuinely like watching, so I will, but absolutely will not pay for it or anything like that. Personally, I will be ready with pirated streams :)

Nah, I have no interest in football.

I have run away to Russia to avoid the world cup. (I mean not really it's a complete coincidence but I find it kinda funny that my summer trip lined up with when the world cup is happening back home).

Pirate stream - you can still enjoy it while they can't monetize your viewership.
https://fmhy.net/video#live-sports use adblocker and it might be a good idea to try a few to find one that works well in your area and has good quality streams. I personally mostly use foxtrend.vip

i stopped stanning BTS when JK performed on that stage built by slaves.

I'm not too into football as a whole, but my family and I watch a few games of the World Up every time it comes around. Obviously not buying tickets, they're absurdly expensive, but we'll probably tune in for Iran's games, as well as the games for a few other countries we have relatives in. I'm not into sports so I don't care much for that aspect of the World Cup, it's definitely more an exercise in cultural pride for me.

Also, the blatant hypocrisy of liberals who were up in arms saying to boycott Qatar last time but have nothing to say about games in the fucking US is not lost on me. I'd bet that the stadium was constructed using undocumented people since they're such a massive part of California's construction industry (as well as other states). I've only seen a few protests from local groups here on SoCal that are protesting the World Cup, specifically due to ICE, but nothing from the wider mainstream liberal outlets.

FIFA? Sport? What are we talking about? Football/Soccer has not relation with FIFA, sport neither. Then... I am not watching a horrid (supposed) spectacle when it is really the antithesis of sport.

Never been a footbal fan. There's an 24 hours of Le Mans on the weekend for me.

I'm not personally but I've never been able to get invested in sports.

WHAT THE FUCK IS SPORTS

It's only slightly easier to avoid it where I'm from because my family cares only whether if our home country is participating so I won't be hearing too much about the World Cup beyond my dad's occasional curiosity.

But yeah, don't care to watch it live or anything. Can't really say I'm boycotting it when I haven't been interested in it in the first place.