Donald Trump says he ‘wouldn’t pay’ four figures for World Cup matches

Tickets for US opener v Paraguay go for $1,000+Infantino recently defended World Cup pricesDonald Trump has questioned the value of four-figure World Cup tickets for matches involving the United States, 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. Continue reading...