Tickets for US opener v Paraguay go for $1,000+
Infantino recently defended World Cup prices
Donald Trump has questioned the value of four-figure World Cup tickets for matches involving the US, telling the New York Post that “I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest.”
The remark came in a phone interview with the Post, with Trump claiming he “did not know that number” for the USMNT’s opening match against Paraguay. In December, Fifa established a base price for Category 3 tickets – the cheapest available to most fans, given the small swathe of Category 4 seats at the tournament – of $1,120, according to the Guardian’s reporting at the time.
Trump’s remarks come a day after Fifa president Gianni Infantino defended ticket pricing for the 2026 World Cup, the first time the nearly century-old tournament has used dynamic pricing. The mechanism, which has become a regular practice in the US in recent years, allows ticket prices to fluctuate greatly for events in high demand.
