Thread 149662560

>Group stage average attendance: 35,000
>Round of 16 average attendance: 42,000
>Quarters average attendance: 60,000

In the US of all places and with this terrible scheduling, I think it's safe to say this is an incredible success.

Gianni wins again.

That's the only thing were good at. Making money

>>149662686
He is also pretty good at exposing UEFA's fraudulent financial bubble, it seems.

the usa has 100 million brown people who love football and have always sold out stadiums for football games though. what's it got to do with infantino

>>149662863
His personal project for destabilizing UEFA is beating all the failure claims and generating the kind of coping you just posted. That's what it's got to do with him.

destabilising uefa by paying them 100m for half arsing a pre season tournament yeah

>>149662947
This is literally the most watched sporting event in the history of Latin America, if you exclude WCs.

It also showcased just how small the difference is between UEFA and non-UEFA, imploding the valuation of the Champions League in the long-run.

>>149662560 (OP)
>wins fifa presidency on anti corruption manifesto
>is even more blatantly corrupt than blatter but without the funny moments
Grim

>>149662986
>if yurop loses its corruption

>>149662686
>Paris
>Madrid
>London
>Rio de Janeiro
>Running money through Switzerland and the United States in a crooked way to give cover to criminals
Just like the end of WWII intended it to be.

>>149663041
It's too early for schizoposting

>>149662560 (OP)
>In the US of all places
do people have zero fucking memory? world cup and copa america have record attendances in america, plus we've had huge friendly games there over the year. this 'us doesn't care about soccer' shit is the most NPC thing ever

btw, group stage is 3/4 of the tournament so attendance in the latter stages isn't that important

>>149662947
100m every 4 years is only 25m a year. clubs in the cl get 100m a year from uefa and then they get tons of stadium revenue as well

>>149662986
>he's corrupt because he does things I don't like
lolokay.jpg

>>149663156
>group stage is 3/4 of the tournament so attendance in the latter stages isn't that important
>the parts of the tournament that don't matter are the only ones that matter
Holy fucking cope.

>>149663184
I suspect that with the huge Saudi attention, the prize for the CWC is going to rise at a higher rate than the prize of the CL.

We're pretty much at a 1930 Uruguay moment for clubs. Even took too long for this globalizing moment to arrive, if you think of it.

>>149662947
>>149662986
>seething because PL doesn't have a monopoly on club football anymore

>>149662560 (OP)
Guy's a retard, if he really wanted this tournament to go big he should have hosted it in a place where people care about it, like South America, but instead he decided that it was more important to prop up grandpa Pissi.

>>149662560 (OP)
let me see the tv reciepts. no way the gate paid for this boring shitshow

>>149664603
How is soccer supposed to grow if they host it in places that already care about soccer? That doesn't make sense

>>149664676
you can't grow soccer any further. The saturation point was reached in the 90s. The whole 'let's host almost every tournament outside traditional FIFA nations' thing is just a cash grab and you fell for their marketing.

>>149662560 (OP)
They mad af because they got >Exposed

>>149662560 (OP)
Man United gets more than that every week and they're shite

>>149664857
Imagine if they organised the cwc in India......

>>149664603
Check the average attendance for the 2000 cup that happened in Brazil. Now compare it with the average attendance of this one.

That's not even to mention the purchasing power of Americans, that allows tickets to be priced 2-3x more than in other places.

>>149664728
>saturation point
>none of it in China, India, or USA, the literal three biggest markets in the world

>>149663252
3/4 of the tournament is 3 times more important than 1/4 of the tournament for saying what the tournament is, retard

>>149663325
lol wat. we're the biggest league in the world because we're the best league in the best confederation. a few shocks from brazil and al hilal don't change that

>>149664603
the us broke the copa america attendance record in its first time hosting it. that's right, in its first time hosting the tournament it BTFO of your continents shitty 100 year history of hosting it. and it doesn't even care. much like uefa doesn't even care and still dominate your shit in this competition

>>149665179
>my continent Football org is more powerful than yours
Congrats, Nigel, your NT is still shite and will always will be. Any sucess the PL has is due to foreigner players.

>>149665179
35k for group stage average is pretty good.

>>149665168
all those countries have hundreds of millions of people who watch and follow soccer. But they're just there for audience numbers, you can't reintroduce the sport there and expect it to replace the already existing sporting culture. China made a fake league with borrowed money and it failed immediately. Neither the MLS or the ISL can supplant European soccer as the most viewed and supported leagues in their countries. All the international tournaments do is reinforce this notion because of how bad they've been at developing. But FIFA will put tournaments in the US for easy revenue, away from countries that would make the tournaments better.

>>149665229
sorry you don't like the facts but uefa has more spots than you in the cwc. we're just better

>>149665269
sure okay. the average for the entire tournament is 37.5k thus far. i only reacted like that because stating ro16 and quarters attendance seems misleading

>>149665283
They don't need their own league if they start supporting international teams. This is the market space that UEFA owns and FIFA is trying to tap into by internationalizing other leagues and conferences.

>>149665288
This year's Champions League average was about 40k. With the semis and finals the CWC average might surparss it. And that's considering that they are not playing at home but across the planet.

>>149665326
the leagues being bad goes back to the development issue. The worst part is that the US may have peaked prematurely in the 2000s despite sending a lot more players to Europe nowadays.

>>149665168
Germany, on its own, is richer than India

>>149664676
unitedstatesians don't care about football due the lack of adversiting and points, it will never be popular there, their zoomer brain need points every second and ads about the new marvel movie every 5 minutes.

>>149662560 (OP)
>In the US of all places
You know how many fucking foreigners we have in this country? Fucking chicanos, man.

>>149662560 (OP)
Fifa wins again.....no one can stop them

>>149666833
Direct cash doesn't matter in the TV viewing game. It's all about brand positioning and owning people's attention, not paying costumers.

>>149667603
Let's discount the lack of interest and football culture, and the fact that it is being played alongside the Gold Cup and the MLS that tap into the same audience, its still a huge country with a distributed population and venues spread 100s of miles apart. If youre a chicano or Brazilian in the US to follow your team you'd have to travel from New York to Miami to Charlotte to Atlanta and back. During weekday afternoon matches. Without being able to plan ahead. That's very different from playing in a small European country.

>>149662560 (OP)
>20% increase, then 40% increase
What if...they make it a 512 team tournament?

It was just a scratch, guys. I'm okay.

Let's get down let's get down to business give you one more night one more night to get this we've had a million million nights just like this so let's get down let's get down to business mama please don't worry 'bout me cause I'm about to let my heart speak my friends keep telling me to leave this so let's get down let's get down to business

https://youtu.be/nCg3ufihKyU?si=0S_rr8qZ0-xO4OK0

>>149671885
>it's all about getting the attention of poor people that can't buy anything from you

>>149662560 (OP)
Depends on the ticket price

They pull the same trick in Australia. They'll talk about attendance figures for women's sport as if it is a direct comparison, but tickets will cost like $10

>>149672258
>si=0S_rr8qZ0-xO4OK0
what are you doing

but you know what?
Let's get down let's get down to business give you one more night one more night to get this we've had a million million nights just like this so let's get down let's get down to business mama please don't worry 'bout me cause I'm about to let my heart speak my friends keep telling me to leave this so let's get down let's get down to business

https://youtu.be/nCg3ufihKyU

>>149663019
>>149663184
>>149663325
>noo yourr just jealous because.. because!
Paid for by saudi money
Couldnt get a tv deal for cwc
Got a great deal from a Saudi owned company on the very same day saudi Arabia was announced as world cup hosts (mad that)
Saudi Arabia hosts world cup despite having little football heritage or the required number of stadiums and the fact fifa themselves said that they only want multi country bids now
But its all fine i guess im just jealous because!

If millions of people watch this tournament on TV, but nobody goes to watch the matches at the actual stadiums…is it a success or a failure?

>>149672781
Yes, with the attention you get soft power hegemony and brand establishment, which is what breeds long-term capitalist empires.

>>149674813
I'd consider it a success of audience and failure of scheduling, personally. But they got both the record audience and the pretty good attendance, so that's a non-issue.