FIFA responded to New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to get soccer’s global governing body to drop its plan for dynamic pricing for next year’s World Cup, jointly being hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The Democrat socialist launched a petition Tuesday night that he called “Game Over Greed” and demanded FIFA not use the pricing model, cap resale ticket prices and put aside 15 percent of tickets at a discounted rate for local residents.
In a statement provided to The Post on Wednesday, a FIFA spokesperson defended dynamic pricing as a “developing market practice” and said that it would be setting aside tickets for “specific fan categories” that will be at a “fixed price.” 3
“The pricing model adopted generally reflects the existing and developing ma