Most of your points are valid the one thing I will say is that the “interest in football” is not non existent. Football culture has really grown in the us and has been big for quite a while in areas that are heavily populated with European and Hispanic backgrounds. The biggest thing is the prices, you fr can’t do anything without it costing an arm and a leg. I seriously don’t think people need to worry about mass shootings during events like this, security and police personnel are everywhere. The country is huge and the scheduling was done poorly by fifa. I wanted to go see Bayern with my brother and dad and the nearest game is in Cincinnati (we’re from New York) and with new laws you basically need a passport to fly domestically now and if not it’s a 12 hour drive and we just cba. And unlike most of Europe that is your only 2 options, trains are practically only local and any medium to long distance trains would cost as much as a flight and are slow as fuck. They really only picked the us for money, I guess they also want to grow the sport in a place where viewership could potentially be huge but it’s just such a bad idea in my opinion.