Slow down an Argentina attack.
Here's Almada on the move for the world champions.
Now Medina pulled back here, lets it runs.
History in Dallas. years to the day since Diego Maradona scored the hand of God.
Lionel Messi scores the goal to make him the World Cup's all-time leading scorer.
Wonderful moment.
That was Lionel Messy making history and becoming the most prolific scorer in World Cup history.
Argentina has already advanced to the knockout stage and is looking strong in their quest to defend their title.
And fun fact, if you Google in animation celebrating his record pops up.
Joining me this morning to weigh in his record of sports ventures and sports business analysts for TV.
17 was big.
18 is bigger.
Dallas exploded.
I've been to 5.
I'm going to 5 more.
It's a cheap promotion, but you're going to see all of my reports that I do in each of these stadiums.
11 US to Canada to Mexico.
Economic impact of about 1 billion 5, a city, 700.
11,000 expected in each city and obviously each of these, by the way, Remy is effectively 104 Super Bowls and if you don't think so, look at the traffic snafu's coming in and out on the pitch.
Amazing and anybody who doesn't enjoy football, soccer after this two weeks. brain dead.
I'm sorry.
You're just brain dead.
And at the end of the day, the US deal is icing on the cake, about a 55% increase in ticket sales for round three, which is meaningless.
This is the first time in history where America doesn't have to win to get to not only the final knockout stage, but also to win their group.
So everybody's excited about Santa Clara already 2 weeks from now or 1 week from now when they start the knockout stage.
This is an unbelievable, low expectation, high performance event for the US team.
Yes, Rick, right now we know that there are viewers from across the country at the nation's airport gates that are watching and when we're talking about the World Cup here in the US, we know that the World Cup has impacted the daily commutes of Americans.
So tell us what's happening on the ground.
Yeah, well, if anybody is watching at the airports, I've got a lot of these hats.
I can, you know, give them to you at a discount because I've been to all these places.
At the end of the day, everybody doesn't understand how important it is to arrive early, get there early.
I sound like a Christmas or Thanksgiving holiday travel adviser, but you've got 15 destinations.
And everybody has 6 or 7 games, and they come in and they leave and the first game is an experience for each city and each traveler.
The next game they ought to know better.
So for example, Miami, Brazil, and Scotland tomorrow, huge, getting there about 5 hours before kickoff when the gates open.
StubHub has a class action against them by. because of ticket transfer issues.
There are a lot of bugs that are being worked out, and Travel snafu is one of them, the New York transportation, New Jersey, New York.
But look, put it in perspective, you've got 104 games.
This is tremendous economic impact.
You've got 6 million visitors, including 3 billion, watching the finals in two weeks.
It's a small price to pay.
Yeah, absolutely small price to pay for all this excitement as well as the billions of dollars pouring into the US economy.
So Rick, we will have to leave it there.
Thank you so much for joining us today and thank you so much for sharing all of your fun insights.
