The first match of the 2026 World Cup kicks off in about 3 weeks. I grew up playing soccer. I wasn’t great, but I loved the sport. Both of my kids play competitively, and they love it, too. My wife and I spend a significant amount of time taking our kids to soccer practices and games. Over Memorial Day weekend, we watched our kids play in 7 matches in 4 cities!
The 2026 World Cup is being hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico. Several World Cup matches are being held in Foxboro, Massachusetts, which is a little over 30 minutes from us. When the US hosted the World Cup in 1994, my parents took us to a match. My wife and I want to give the same opportunity to our kids.
I signed up for a bunch of ticket lotteries run by FIFA, but I was not selected. Instead, I used the FIFA resale market and bought tickets to a match in mid-June. I am sure I am going to watch many World Cup matches on television this Summer.
With so many different venues hosting matches, I am curious if you’re going to attend a match in person. If not, who are you rooting for?
Don’t be surprised attendance will be down ….who the hell wants to come to US when it is so unwelcome and ticket prices are so outrageous, and everything is so expensive.
I prefer to go to Mexico, they really know how to celebrate soccer.
I plan to go to a few matches in Mexico.
As the Red Sox are having a terrible season and with not much fire power in their bats, I won’t be going to Fenway for any baseball games.
I’ll pull for the following teams;
USA. Argentina. Brasil. Portugal.
In 1994 how old were you.
Various intel sources globally have suggested that the world cup may be the site of a massive false flag event, to be blamed on Iran. (Perhaps that’s why tonnes of equipment have been moving there in preparation?) Even if I was nearby the world cup… no thank you.
Also consider that most/all organisations (IOC, FIFA, Eurovison, etc) have been hijacked and become far too politically biased. It’s blatantly obvious. I wouldn’t support any of them solely for that reason.
Despite the curious concern campaign orchestrated by ACLU where they pushed the ‘US is inherently dangerous for World Cup foreigners’ bullcr@p, I think the World Cup will be a success.
50 million visitors a year vs the handful of run-of-the-mill crime incidents – a contrary factual reality – indicate that the ACLU campaign is some weird smear attack probably orchestrated by the usual politically active hidden billionaires somewhere.
At game time, the giant allure of the sport will get people in the stands paying mid three figure prices for not the best seats and most other fans will be glued to their TVs celebrating the beautiful game.
I won’t be attending myself because I am generally no longer interested in major sports due to the outside-the-lines drama, costs, heavy commercialization by big banks and big pharma, etc. and I thus prefer more affordable, localized, community engaging athletic events.
But I am looking forward to watching the World Cup with its minimal interruption game coverage on regular broadcast TV (Fox) in an air conditioned setting to beat the summer doldrums.
I went to a match in 1994, but soccer then was about 1/10th as popular in the US as it is now, and tickets were cheap and easy to get. The thing I remember most was how beautiful some of the Brazilian women were.
Aye-Yai-Yai.