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Who the fuck is voluntarily going to the US in the first place?
The stadiums for the world cup were pretty full with non-USA
Yea if you’re willing to give FIFA money why not give USA some money too. We’re not talking about the brightest bulbs here.
Actually a lot of the people were locals. There was an article on the Dutch news stating whenever the real Dutch supporters, saw other people wearing orange, the were mostly Americans.
According to the official figures, just released, out of the 6.5 million visitors, only 1.2 million were international visitors.
The people went for the world cup, not for the US... obviously.
immigrants, tourists
You couldn't pay me to tour the US atm. Well.. It would have to be very very high at least. All expenses paid wouldn't be close.
tourists minus Robust Mirror*
A lot of soccer fans did.
I first thought that your username is PlaidBacon and had to reread it.