Is traveling to see Messi expensive or cheap?

They expect to achieve a record number of sales of travel packages to the United States. How do you give a historical comparison to the price of the dollar in the World Cup finals?

05/12/2025 – 11:50 am

Historical comparison leaves no doubt: current Dollar price It is one of the cheapest, when it comes to drawing conclusions on whether it is worth getting tickets to the FIFA World Cup or not.

Any football fan will remember that in mid-2018, under the Macri administration, Argentinians who traveled to Russia demanded…r The currency depreciation that occurred during the World Cup. This exchange rate – at today’s prices – was $1,404. Very similar to today’s quote.

Loud Argentine fans inside Qatar. The stands were packed, even long before Lionel Messi’s team reached the decisive stages.

In that Qatar 2022, The price of a blue dollar was about $2,600 (at today’s prices), which is much higher than $1,450 now. And after…

Various companies selling World Cup packages have warned that they expect this to happen A wave of salesOnce the fate of the Argentine national team is known.

Other World Cups: 1998 vs 2002

You have to go back to the end of the nineties to see the dollar cheaper than now. In 1994, in the United States, and in France in 1998, the price of the dollar was less than $1,000. Always at today’s prices.

In that convertibility, The “gifted” dollar. It has opened the doors to various levels of television and radio teams who broadcast practically live all day from abroad. And in times when live streaming was not possible with today’s technology.

In 2002, the opposite happened: the one-to-one ratio between the peso and the dollar exploded The dollar, which – even today – is a record high.

Perhaps this is how we understand the scarce presence of Argentines in World Cup Korea and Japan -Beyond the enormous geographical distance-: an exchange rate, at current prices, of 2,653 pesos.

Not even in Blue MarketThe price of the dollar was about the same as it was at that time, at least during the FIFA World Cup.

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Caputo trusts

Louis Caputo He defended the current exchange rate in response to those who say it is backward.

The head of the Treasury Palace published a graph showing the increase in sales abroad, “the first case in the world of an economic program that increases export quantities to record levels, with a ‘backward’ exchange rate.”

he minister In this way, he sought to define his position before economists and private sector leaders who consider that “the dollar is cheap.”