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World Cup final tickets listed on FIFA resale for over $2M

sportsApr 23, 202630490

FIFA's official resale site lists four tickets for the 2026 FIFA World Cup final at just under $2.3 million apiece. Those listings appear in FIFA's sanctioned resale inventory rather than on an independent secondary marketplace, so the astronomical prices are visible through FIFA's own channel. Each ticket price far exceeds typical premium pricing for major sporting finals and tops previously reported World Cup resale figures. At that level of secondary-market inflation most local and traveling spectators would be blocked from attending, raising concrete concerns about ticket allocation and affordability for the tournament.

Mother Jones
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If Zampolli does get a role in organizing the World Cup, fans, players, journalists, and other travelers may be subjected to the Trump administration’s brutal immigration policies.

15h ago
Khashoggi's Ghost
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Trump suggested that Iran should be replaced at the World Cup, but Italy objected, and Iran is still planning to play. Italian officials pushed back hard at the suggestion, saying Thursday that “first of all, it’s not possible. Secondly, it’s not a good idea.” apnews.com/article/worl...

15h ago
The New York Times
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A Trump administration official this week proposed that Italy’s national soccer team take Iran’s spot at the World Cup this summer. Supporters didn’t appreciate the pity invite.

15h ago
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Grassroots groups in host cities are concerned w the World Cup approaching, “We're still waiting for public commitments from FIFA& host city organisers on plans to protect residents,workers,&visitors." Warning of risks to privacy,racial profiling,ice,detention facilities,even death #AreWeGreatYet

14h ago
The Washington Post
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Paolo Zampolli, a longtime friend of President Trump who is serving as special envoy for global partnerships, suggested that Italy replace Iran in the World Cup, which will be held in the U.S. in June. Italian officials expressed no interest in a substitution.

14h ago
Winnipeg Free Press
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Amnesty International and dozens of U.S. civil and human rights groups issued a “ World Cup travel advisory” Thursday, warning tournament visitors of “rising authoritarianism and increasing violence” in the United States during President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement.

15h ago
norbizness
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Good backgrounder here. Not like he's involved in anything seedy with Epstein, girlfriend deportations, or Melania, just a simple special envoy making World Cup suggestions.

14h ago
Truthout
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Paolo Zampolli — who reportedly introduced Trump to Melania Trump — has personally asked both Trump and Infantino to remove Iran from the World Cup tournament, and be replaced by Italy, who did not qualify.

14h ago
Guardian US
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The governing body’s resale site has four tickets for the 19 July final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey listed for $2,299,998.85 each

14h ago
Murshed Zaheed
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Is this the same Paolo Zampolli ("Melania’s former modeling agent and a onetime Trump Organization real estate broker" w/ "past circumstantial connections" to Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell ) who is reportedly asking #FIFA to replace Iran w/ Italy in the #WorldCup? prospect.org/2026/04/23/d...

"In the Daily Mail, Paolo Zampolli—Melania’s former modeling agent and a onetime Trump Organization real estate broker, currently serving on the Kennedy Center board and in an undefined State Department role as U.S. Special Envoy for Global Partnerships—offered to testify before Congress that he, in fact, introduced Donald to the woman then known as Melania Knauss at a party at the Kit Kat Club in New York in 1998. At the time, Zampolli was the founder and president of ID Model Management, and he has long claimed credit for sponsoring an H1-B work visa for Knauss when she was still an unknown model looking for a better future than her native Slovenia offered. If Melania doesn’t take up Zampolli on his offer, it may not only be because it would only highlight his past circumstantial connections to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The two men discussed buying, but ultimately failed in their bid to acquire Elite Models following its 2004 bankruptcy. And he later partnered with Maxwell on the TerraMar Project, a paper-tiger environmental nonprofit Maxwell promoted at the United Nations; that shuttered project predates Zampolli’s current initiative, We Are The Oceans, which he’s since celebrated at the Kennedy Center."
19h ago
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