{"id":330863,"date":"2026-06-10T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330863\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:39:11","slug":"world-cup-tickets-investigated-after-fans-report-worse-seats-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330863\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup tickets investigated after fans report worse seats \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday his office will investigate FIFA over allegations the international soccer governing body pulled a bait-and-switch scheme with World Cup fans, delivering tickets with worse views than originally advertised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will work to ensure that FIFA is engaging in ethical and honest business practices so that Texas fans are treated fairly,\u201d Paxton said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as Arlington and Houston are set to host World Cup matches in the coming weeks. FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Paxton\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The global soccer giant previously said early color-coded stadium seating maps were intended to be \u201cguidelines\u201d for fans rather than a precise layout of seats in each price category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/paxton-fifa-world-cup-tickets-22297778.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more from our media partner, The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOfficials are investigating whether FIFA misled fans about ticket prices and seat locations.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday his office will investigate FIFA over allegations the international soccer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3691,150,152,151,102,37274,56,1967,430,27,3692],"class_list":["post-330863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-dallas","tag-fifa","tag-houston","tag-ken-paxton","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}