FIFA no longer letting fans bring refillable water bottles into World Cup stadiums
Organisation says last-minute ban intended to protect safety of players, fans.
Water will be sold at prices "consistent with other events held at each stadium"
“These are regular people who are saving to finally see something that's important to them, to have that once-in-a-lifetime experience in their own city, and now they're going to be told to spend more money on a Coca-Cola product,” he said. “That’s just wrong.”
"Safety concerns" are of course concerns for the safety of FIFA's bank account balance.
And Coca-Cola dividend shareholder bank accounts
Dunno how it is everywhere else but in Toronto the FIFA preparations have also fenced off certain public parks around the stadium which were heavily used for through-traffic, forcing pedestrians and cyclists to have to take massive detours around them. It’s particularly annoying because they’ve just been fenced off for weeks now with barely anyone inside except for some half asleep volunteer guards on their phones. How this is legal, I don’t know, but I’m assuming it came with the bribes. Just stinks of classism and corruption and it makes me like this World Cup even less (among all the other reasons).
The World Cup is a disgrace. Fuck anyone who watches that shit.
Since when does FIFA give a shit about safety?
Since it can make them money
It's like they're looking for ways they haven't pissed off people yet.
To put this in perspective, ticket prices start at over $1K cdn. If that's your price range to watch a soccer match a $10 bottle of water isn't your problem.
I'll probably enjoy the atmosphere around the city during the WC, but I'm not enthusiastic about the event itself. As a kid, it would have felt like a dream to have the WC going on in Canada. Now, I'm just too cynical about FIFA. They're just awful.
Water closet
Already walked back. What a circus.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/06/fifa-backtracks-on-plastic-water-bottles-at-world-cup-after-backlash-to-ban
Not really. You could only bring in factory sealed plastic bottles. i.e. you still have to buy company water not rely on municipal water
All the more reason not to go
I went to a concert at a stadium that refused to let you keep the cap to your single use plastic water bottles because people had been throwing closed bottles full of water at the stage.
During the concert I saw 4 or 5 open bottles fly at the stage with liquid coming out.
People are terrible.