decision to ban beer sales in stadiums, despite a $75 million sponsorship deal with budweiser. but this weekend, the president of fifa, soccer s world governing body, criticized the critics. this moral lesson giving, one sided. it s just hi ypocrisy. reporter: visitors are mingling with residents, where beer is still on tap. this is a popular spot. each fan can buy up to four beers, and each drink costs around $14. these two fans traveled here from washington, d.c. there s so much in the news about not being able to get here. reporter: and these are the players he ll be cheering on. with an average age of 25 1/2, the u.s. has one of the youngest squads here.
$220 billion on stadiums and infrastructure, making this the most expensive world cup ever. in yet another last-minute change of plans of at the beer sales flags last week, the captains of european teams won t support the rainbow bands they promised to wear in solid with the lgbtq community. the fifa warned them that wearing the armbands would earn them a yellow card. it s something we ve done before. i don t see the problem. the u.s. team says it started educating its players about local issues 18 months ago. being here on the ground, greg, what is the stand that the u.s. team is making? from my perspective, there s been positive things. there s still also work to do. from u.s. soccer to the u.s. military today, fox corps ceo lachlan murdock opened a sports bar at a military base. roughly 8,000 service members
concerned about the country s treatment of gay people to outraged at the last-minute decision to band beer sales at the event. amanda davis is live from qatar for us. it was a pretty strange press conference from the president of fifa today. what exactly happened? reporter: yeah, on the eve, martin, on one of the most controversial, if not the most controversial world cup in history, you have to say one of the most controversial fifa press conferences in history. and given this organization, that is saying quite something, isn t it? this press conference last evening even fifa watchers with their jaws on the floor, as the fifa president gianni infantino gave an incredible monologue that lasted nearly an hour. in the buildup to the greatest
light, water, heat and communications during the winter. so he went onto call for europe to ply more help to ukraine not only in supplying parts to replace things that are being destroyed, parts of the energy infrastructure grid being being destroyed in russian air strikes and also called for europe to help supply more gas in the first place. this is not only a test of ukrainian resolve, ukrainian will but also a test of ukraine s allies to provide even more. of course they re already supplying billions and billions dollars worth of weapons. now they re being asked to provide help with the energy infrastructure as well, michael. all right, appreciate the update. scott mcclain in london, thanks so much. well, just days before the world cup set to begin in qatar, the government making a u-turn on beer sales inside the venue. more on that when we come back. .
using the opportunity to address and debate those topics, whether that is human rights, migrant workers, many of whom have built the infrastructure and stadiums in this country, or if it s about lgbtq+ fans and their reservations about travelling. the policy of beer sales in stadiums, that was reversed yesterday, just two days before the tournament was due to start. you can no longer buy alcohol in any of the eight venues that the matches are going to be played at let s not forget that the tournament starts tomorrow with england playing on monday and i was at the england training camp today and i asked eric dier whether the top of off the field issues has taken away the excitement for the football that soon to start. of course it is taking away because we are talking about it rather than talking about football, so of course it is. we as players have no say in where we play. those decisions are made by people way above us and obviously