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U.S. Soccer told NBC News the $60 tickets are in sections 306 through 310 for the Paraguay match, sections 302 through 304 for the Australia match and sections 426 through 431 against Turkey. It didn\u2019t provide further comment.<\/p>\n
When the tickets started landing in people\u2019s accounts Monday night, \u201cmy phone just blew up,\u201d Hexsel said. \u201cEverybody was pissed.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear whether fan groups for the World Cup\u2019s other competing countries have been affected in the same way. <\/p>\n
Juan Felipe Garay, coordinator of Colombia\u2019s biggest supporters\u2019 group, Fiebre Amarilla, told NBC News the group doesn\u2019t yet know where its $60 seats will be for Colombia\u2019s matches. <\/p>\n
But Hexsel said that without question, for the American die-hards, a World Cup in their own backyard now \u201cdoes not feel like we are playing in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n
South Florida superfan Burak, who asked that his last name not be published for privacy, told NBC News on Monday night that a ticket in the \u201c400s\u201d showed up in his account for the third U.S. match.<\/p>\n
Burak said he laughed with his wife about the situation and hadn\u2019t expected better seats. He prefers being high up at a match when he\u2019s trying to \u201cread the play.\u201d But, he said, watching is secondary to making an impact when you\u2019re in the supporters\u2019 section.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re up at nosebleed 400s, your reaction doesn\u2019t even matter. No one\u2019s going to hear, see or notice,\u201d he wrote in a text message.<\/p>\n
Another U.S. fan, Gabriel Miguel, said, \u201cI thought it could be worse.\u201d <\/p>\n
Miguel scored $60 tickets to the opening U.S. match against Paraguay. He\u2019ll be in section 308 and said he\u2019s \u201cmostly grateful\u201d just to be in the building.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to have been down in the lower action, but I mean, 300s is perfectly fine, especially for that price.\u201d<\/p>\n
American supporter Logan Pedersen said, \u201cWe could have been higher up … not by far.\u201d <\/p>\n
Pedersen said in a phone interview that he got \u201cthe golden ticket,\u201d getting to see the opening U.S. match at such a relatively low cost. He\u2019s \u201cjust glad to be in the stadium,\u201d but he also said FIFA\u2019s ticketing \u201cprocess has been a nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s still super disappointing from FIFA that they\u2019re not at least designating a section for, you know, 500 fans from each team directly behind the goal. I think it\u2019s a huge loss for the atmosphere that\u2019s gonna go on in the stadium,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hexsel said of the seating arrangements, \u201cIt just means we gotta bring more drums and more noise to show the team that … we still showed up.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cFIFA could have just said: \u2018Hey … it\u2019s 300, it\u2019s 200. Yeah, it\u2019s a little bit more than what you paid in Qatar, but you guys have a block of seats where you\u2019ve always had a block of seats,\u2019 and people would have paid it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burak said by text message: \u201cI\u2019m just glad I can at least go to some games with the supporter price. I accept my small guy status. If we had a strong community, I\u2019d be all about boycotting the WC all together. But that\u2019s not how people are, that will never happen. And Fifa is feeding off of that. They know someone will show up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Said Miguel: \u201cI\u2019m happy to be going, at least, and it\u2019s more like memories than anything. Could it be better? Of course. But … they dropped the ball from the beginning with this. It\u2019s … nothing surprising at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
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