Jen Bartashus, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Retail Staples Analyst, discussed the significant economic impact of the upcoming World Cup, estimating global spending to reach $80 billion. She highlighted the event as one of the largest sporting occasions worldwide, driving substantial retail and consumer activity. However, Bartashus noted the unique challenge for the United States, where soccer is less popular compared to other countries, making the domestic economic impact of hosting the tournament uncertain and closely watched.
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😂😂😂😂waste 👎 🗑
probably not
Its not soccer its aFootball, football 🤨
The USA is one of the largest footballing nations on earth. By number of actual played and the money spent on the game.
The guest is ignorant
Whether u mean in terms of quality or fans ur not even top 20 lmao
That’s not going to be in the US, its streaming and betting, bars showing the game….
😂 complete bs, noone is coming to the fcking world cup in America.
Noone wants to come to America anymore.
Unless it’s to help destroy us
sure, but not at the stadiums, hotels will be embty and so will be the stadiums 😂
total flop
but hey at least they managed to destroy that historical whale wallpainting. gj fifia