This once more shows why one cannot turn an "in the shadows" country for a sport suddenly into the limelight. FIFA and UEFA are both guilty completely of passing the financial burden right into the laps of every day citizens in Poland and the Ukraine. Soccer America, I know that you are just pulling this story off the "wires" and re-posting it here. But please never refer to state budgets or state money. What exactly is that? Only Erik Nayman of Capital Times got it right in this article -- the burden is on the citizen taxpayers as we have seen in Portugal 2004, Austria in 2008, South Africa 2010. It is the working citizens who pay for these through taxation and over-taxation for years. This practice of "let them eat cake" from UEFA and FIFA probably dates back to at least Mexico 1986. You are in California. If ever there was a place that ought to understand how lunatic governmental plans (Sacramento) saddle the taxpaying citizens for decades to come, it is you. In essence, it is why FIFA should have chosen England over Russia (for many reasons, not just the taxpayers) to host in 2018. Question: When will Soccer America send an intrepid reporter to South Africa to check out four years later how or in what ways hosting the 2010 fiasco 'concretely' benefited South Africans?