Hukumomin Amurka sun ƙaddamar da bincike na hukuma kan yadda FIFA ke sayar da tikiti na Gasar Duniya 2026, suna neman bayani kan zargin cewa ƙungiyar ta hau farashin tikiti ta hanyar zamba kuma ta yaudari magoya baya.
Lauyan jahar New York da na New Jersey — Letitia James da Jennifer Davenport bi da bi — sun sanar da binciken tare da sashen kare mabukaci da ma'aikata na birnin New York (DCWP). An fitar da umarni na kotu ga FIFA da ke tilastawa ta miƙa takardun ciki da bayanai.
Davenport ta bayyana tsarin sayan tikiti a matsayin «jerin rudani, ƙarancin ƙarya, da farashi masu tsada maras misali», yayin da kwamishinan DCWP, Samuel AA Levine, ya sanar da cewa hukumarsa za ta «ɗauki zargin munanan ayyukan yaudara da muhimmanci sosai».
Farashi da suka zarce duk gasa da suka gabata
An nemi FIFA ta bayyana dalilin da ya sa farashin tikiti «ya zarce farashin duk wani gasar Duniya da ta gabata». Magoya baya sun ce an yaudare su game da wurin zamansu, musamman ta hanyar ƙirƙirar tikiti na nau'i na «front» mai tsada wanda aka fitar bayan farkon siyarwa.
An kuma zargi cewa tsarin farashin da ke canzawa a matakai daban-daban na siyarwa ya ba FIFA damar ɗaga farashi a kusan 90 daga cikin wasanni 104, da matsakaicin hauhawar 34%. A lokacin sanarwar, akwai tikiti da farashin fuska don wasanni 86 daga cikin 104, ciki har da kusan duk wasannin matakin rukuni.
MetLife Stadium a tsakiyar zargi
Lauyan gunduma sun jaddada farashin tikiti na wasanni takwas, ciki har da karshe-karshen wasa, da za a yi a MetLife Stadium a New Jersey. «Zama gaskiya game da siyar da tikiti ba abu ne mai rikitarwa ba,» Davenport ta ce. «Girma ne mu karɓi bakuncin Gasar Duniya, amma taron ba gayyata ce ta cin zarafin mazaunanmu da baƙinmu ba.»
James ta ƙara cewa mazaunan gida «sun cancanci damar gaskiya ta samun tikiti masu araha», yayin da Levine ya jaddada cewa magoya baya suna da 'yancin tsammanin «gaskiya da adalci» yayin sayan tikiti.
Shugaban FIFA, Gianni Infantino, ya kare farashin yana mai cewa suna nuna sha'awar jama'a «mai ban mamaki ƙwarai» ga gasar bazara. An tuntuɓi FIFA don sharhi amma ba ta amsa ba har lokacin buga labarin.
Rikici mai faɗi kan farashi
Takaddama tsakanin masu shirya taron na cikin gida da FIFA ta ci gaba tsawon watanni da yawa game da farashi. Gwamnan New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill, ta tun da daɗe ta soki kin ƙin FIFA ta tallafa wa sufuri, inda ta jaddada cewa masu biyan haraji na gida ba za su ɗauki nauyin ba.
Bayan farko ta sanar da farashi na $150 (£111) don tikitin jirgin ƙasa zuwa MetLife Stadium, NJ Transit ta koma baya ta rage farashin zuwa $98 (£73). Tafiya ta zuwa da komowa tsakanin Penn Station a Manhattan da filin wasa — wuri mai nisan kimanin mil 18 — yawanci yana tsada $12.90 (£9.50).
