00:00just the optics of empty seats is brutal for and and i think it's brutal for something we've talked
00:07a lot about on this show which is what the legacy of this world cup is especially here in the
00:13united
00:13states do you agree yeah and i think it's not just the optics of empty seats which again we're not
00:18sure that we're going to see up yeah empty seats it's the optics of soccer being an expensive
00:26inaccessible great point and fifa yes you said they're a non-profit they exist to develop soccer
00:33around the world and in their mind that is making a bunch of money from this world cup and distributing
00:39it across the world to different soccer federations and there's something in that there's also a lot
00:45of like fifa politics in that that's how johnny infantino stays in power because he can promise
00:50all this money to the federations who then vote for him uh but look another part of developing
00:55soccer and growing the game especially here in the united states is getting people interested in it
01:00and if the story of this world cup was all the excitement building around it rather than how
01:07expensive the tickets are that that serves a purpose and so i think the expensiveness of the tickets is
01:15going to become an inescapable part of the legacy of this world cup and it's doing some harm to it
01:21now fifa would maybe say and in fact their secretary general did say this when i asked him about it
01:27a couple months ago yeah but the legacy of the world cup is also the money that's going to be
01:33made and
01:33flow to all the soccer federations around the world and in that sense the united states is just one of
01:38211 members and and we sometimes look at this too much from a u.s centric perspective when all the
01:46other a lot of other countries around the world are in a way very indirectly going to to benefit from
01:52this but i do think it's doing a lot of harm to what this world cup could do for soccer
01:59in the united states
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