For New Yorkers… Mamdani offers World Cup tickets for $50

He added Enemies 1,000 tickets will be given away at reasonable prices through a lottery system.

The discounted tickets also include free bus transportation to the stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and will be distributed over five group games and two knockout matches, noting that 150 tickets will be available for each game.

At a press conference in Harlem, Mamdani said: “We are making sure that the workers are not denied access to the competitions that they helped create, because of the high prices,” and added jokingly that the price of a ticket of $ 50 is equivalent to the price of five cups of coffee in New York City.

Until May 25, people will be able to enter a lottery for a chance to buy tickets, which are non-refundable and will be given to winners at bus stops to avoid price gouging.

Lottery winners will be able to purchase up to two tickets each.

Ticket sales are a major problem for the tournament, which is hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Platform said,Data TicketA ticket price tracker said the average “allowed” price for a team game in New York reached $864 as of Wednesday.

Some resale tickets are being offered for thousands of dollars on various platforms, including official FIFA markets and exchanges. “FIFA“.

Tickets for the best seats to attend the final game, which will be held on July 19 in New Jersey, were sold at a price of about 33,000 dollars.

This month, FIFA president Gianni Infantino defended the price hike World Cup tickets.

The newspaper “L’Equipe” quoted Infantino He said, “The biggest, and so far the only, thing that FIFA will get is the World Cup.”

“We make money in one month, and in another 47 months, until the next World Cup, we spend this money,” said Infantino.