US citizens account for the largest number of foreign ticket sales for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, despite warnings from a senior White House official to ‘think twice’ about attending this summer’s football festival. The senior Trump administration official warned: “I would think twice because we won’t have the same ability to protect our citizens or even just dealing with the regular consular affairs when we’re there. And the other countries too. You would have that concern in any country about having the lack of consular support.” Despite attempts to deter football fans stateside, US fans have so far been allocated 16,000 tickets for Russia 2018, the highest amount of any country outside the host nation. After the second phase of World Cup ticket applications, Russian fans make up 216,134 of sales, followed by the USA with 16,462. Argentina make up 15,006 sales. Surprisingly, reigning champions Germany account for just 5,974 of the ticket sales. Joachim Loew’s Die Mannschaft visited Russia last summer for the 2017 Confederations Cup, , which it won. the precursor to this summer’s World Cup England do not feature in the top 10 foreign countries to have been allocated tickets, amid claims English fans are… Read full this story
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