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    Argentina vs Austria - World Cup Group J LIVE: Lionel Messi chases all-time tournament goal record as the holders seek back-to-back wins
    Follow Daily Mail Sport's live coverage for the latest updates as holders Argentina take on Austria in Group J at the Dallas Stadium.
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    World Cup concessions: $75 caviar-topped tots in Miami, a day's pay worth of beer in Mexico City
    World Cup tickets are expensive. Flights to North America are expensive. Hotel rooms in many places are expensive.Then there's the price of beer.There are some fun and yes, sometimes pricey food and drink offerings at the venues playing host to the World Cup. A $75 caviar-topped tray of tater tots and a $40 empanada weighing in at 5 pounds (2.2 kilograms) for the daring or for sharing in Miami. Rib-eye tacos for $8 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Something called a Twinkie cheeseburger that has nothing to do with dessert for $22 in Los Angeles.Prices, in many cases, aren't all that different from what U.S. fans would experience on NFL Sundays or college football Saturdays. But some international fans aren't used to such pricing and are calling foul, especially over beer prices that can top $20.It's unfair. It's not right. It's wrong, said Thomas Schller, an engineer from Germany in Toronto to watch his national team play over the weekend, as he held a beer that cost him 24.25 Canadian dollars (about $17 or 15 euros). It's three times the cost of what I pay in my country.But is that stopping him?Well, no, Schller acknowledged.World Cup beer prices become a mild pint of discordThere is clearly some sticker shock among international visitors to this World Cup, especially when it comes to the concession prices. In Europe, it's not uncommon for beers to be perhaps around 4 or 5 euros (about $5-6 USD). There's also no shortage of intrigue on the menu at the concession stands at stadiums across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.Never seen anything like it, said Janine Arbetter, a fan from Austria, as she waited for a hot dog, chips and soda combo in Miami last week. The pre-tip price: $19.35 (about 17 euros), which included a discount for using Visa. It's a lot of food for a little snack.Some Argentina fans happily showed off their $34 lobster rolls from a match in Kansas City on social media, but in Toronto, the brisket sandwich with chips and a bottle of soda for nearly 40 Canadian dollars ($28) had some online commenters lamenting it as robbery.It's OK, more or less, for the World Cup, German fan Daniel Feldmann said of the food prices while watching a match in Vancouver last week.Concession offerings vary from stadium to stadiumFIFA, the sport's governing body and the tournament organizer, has very specific rules on just about everything related to the World Cup and there are guidelines that concessionaires have to follow as well. But prices can vary by market, as do the food and drink offerings. And that means the experience in one city might look, or taste, nothing like what's offered in another.The Fancy AF Tots for $75 at Miami Stadium aren't really tots at all it's three deep-fried hash brown patties, with caviar, creme fraiche and chives. (For those who just want the caviar, it'll be $70.) Southern California's Twinkie cheeseburger is in fact a burger topped with a Texas Twinkie a bacon-wrapped jalapeo stuffed with brisket and cream cheese. But there's also a slew of choices specific to a local market; for example, Vancouver offers short rib poutine (an iconic Canadian dish of fries loaded with beef gravy, pulled short rib and cheese curds) along with a maple bacon smokie (smoked sausage topped with bacon onion jam that features Canadian maple syrup).And in Miami, the signature offerings include pan con lechon (a Cuban-style sandwich with pork, infused with citrus mojo sauce and served on a toasted full Cuban loaf) and Empanada Mundial (the five-pound, handmade, chicken-and-cheese-stuffed dish named after the World Cup).Both Vancouver and Miami have Sodexo Live as a food and beverage provider, and the typical game-day menus in both stadiums were revised a bit to accommodate a soccer crowd.We want it to feel like Miami when youre here, said Zach Williams, the stadium's vice president of operations. Everything we do around the Miami Stadium, we want to make sure everybody understands that when they come here, theyre getting a Miami experience.Atlanta Stadium keeps prices lowIn Mexico City, a beer could cost a day's pay literally. The daily minimum wage in Mexico City is just 315.04 pesos (roughly $18). Some beers at Mexico City Stadium were selling for between 299 and 310 pesos about twice as much as fans would ordinarily pay in the same stadium when the World Cup isn't in town.But in Atlanta, where Falcons owner and stadium operator Arthur Blank promised the low concession prices he's championed for many years would hold for the World Cup, pizza slices were $3, 32-ounce sodas were $4, a cheeseburger was $5, chicken tenders with fries were $6 and beers could be had for as little as $8.Jonathan Arango, a 33-year-old from Greenville, South Carolina, was at a match in Atlanta with his wife, daughter and father.In total for what we got three orders of tacos, a slice of pizza, two waters and a Coke we spent like $50, Arango said. Compared to what weve paid at other events ... it's nice after you paid a lot for a ticket.And Schller pointed out that even though the tournament does come around every four years, it still feels like a once-in-a-lifetime experience.The entire football world is having fun, Schller said, so cheers to that.___Associated Press journalists Tales Azzoni, Maura Carey, Andrew Dalton, Carlos Rodriguez, Alanis Thames, Stephen Whyno and Ben Kule contributed to this story from various World Cup venues. Kule is a student in the University of Georgias Carmical Sports Media Institute.___AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/FIFA-World-Cup
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    World Cup concessions: $75 caviar-topped tots in Miami, a day's pay worth of beer in Mexico City
    World Cup tickets are expensive. Flights to North America are expensive. Hotel rooms in many places are expensive.Then there's the price of beer.There are some fun and yes, sometimes pricey food and drink offerings at the venues playing host to the World Cup. A $75 caviar-topped tray of tater tots and a $40 empanada weighing in at 5 pounds (2.2 kilograms) for the daring or for sharing in Miami. Rib-eye tacos for $8 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Something called a Twinkie cheeseburger that has nothing to do with dessert for $22 in Los Angeles.Prices, in many cases, aren't all that different from what U.S. fans would experience on NFL Sundays or college football Saturdays. But some international fans aren't used to such pricing and are calling foul, especially over beer prices that can top $20.It's unfair. It's not right. It's wrong, said Thomas Schller, an engineer from Germany in Toronto to watch his national team play over the weekend, as he held a beer that cost him 24.25 Canadian dollars (about $17 or 15 euros). It's three times the cost of what I pay in my country.But is that stopping him?Well, no, Schller acknowledged.World Cup beer prices become a mild pint of discordThere is clearly some sticker shock among international visitors to this World Cup, especially when it comes to the concession prices. In Europe, it's not uncommon for beers to be perhaps around 4 or 5 euros (about $5-6 USD). There's also no shortage of intrigue on the menu at the concession stands at stadiums across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.Never seen anything like it, said Janine Arbetter, a fan from Austria, as she waited for a hot dog, chips and soda combo in Miami last week. The pre-tip price: $19.35 (about 17 euros), which included a discount for using Visa. It's a lot of food for a little snack.Some Argentina fans happily showed off their $34 lobster rolls from a match in Kansas City on social media, but in Toronto, the brisket sandwich with chips and a bottle of soda for nearly 40 Canadian dollars ($28) had some online commenters lamenting it as robbery.It's OK, more or less, for the World Cup, German fan Daniel Feldmann said of the food prices while watching a match in Vancouver last week.Concession offerings vary from stadium to stadiumFIFA, the sport's governing body and the tournament organizer, has very specific rules on just about everything related to the World Cup and there are guidelines that concessionaires have to follow as well. But prices can vary by market, as do the food and drink offerings. And that means the experience in one city might look, or taste, nothing like what's offered in another.The Fancy AF Tots for $75 at Miami Stadium aren't really tots at all it's three deep-fried hash brown patties, with caviar, creme fraiche and chives. (For those who just want the caviar, it'll be $70.) Southern California's Twinkie cheeseburger is in fact a burger topped with a Texas Twinkie a bacon-wrapped jalapeo stuffed with brisket and cream cheese. But there's also a slew of choices specific to a local market; for example, Vancouver offers short rib poutine (an iconic Canadian dish of fries loaded with beef gravy, pulled short rib and cheese curds) along with a maple bacon smokie (smoked sausage topped with bacon onion jam that features Canadian maple syrup).And in Miami, the signature offerings include pan con lechon (a Cuban-style sandwich with pork, infused with citrus mojo sauce and served on a toasted full Cuban loaf) and Empanada Mundial (the five-pound, handmade, chicken-and-cheese-stuffed dish named after the World Cup).Both Vancouver and Miami have Sodexo Live as a food and beverage provider, and the typical game-day menus in both stadiums were revised a bit to accommodate a soccer crowd.We want it to feel like Miami when youre here, said Zach Williams, the stadium's vice president of operations. Everything we do around the Miami Stadium, we want to make sure everybody understands that when they come here, theyre getting a Miami experience.Atlanta Stadium keeps prices lowIn Mexico City, a beer could cost a day's pay literally. The daily minimum wage in Mexico City is just 315.04 pesos (roughly $18). Some beers at Mexico City Stadium were selling for between 299 and 310 pesos about twice as much as fans would ordinarily pay in the same stadium when the World Cup isn't in town.But in Atlanta, where Falcons owner and stadium operator Arthur Blank promised the low concession prices he's championed for many years would hold for the World Cup, pizza slices were $3, 32-ounce sodas were $4, a cheeseburger was $5, chicken tenders with fries were $6 and beers could be had for as little as $8.Jonathan Arango, a 33-year-old from Greenville, South Carolina, was at a match in Atlanta with his wife, daughter and father.In total for what we got three orders of tacos, a slice of pizza, two waters and a Coke we spent like $50, Arango said. Compared to what weve paid at other events ... it's nice after you paid a lot for a ticket.And Schller pointed out that even though the tournament does come around every four years, it still feels like a once-in-a-lifetime experience.The entire football world is having fun, Schller said, so cheers to that.___Associated Press journalists Tales Azzoni, Maura Carey, Andrew Dalton, Carlos Rodriguez, Alanis Thames, Stephen Whyno and Ben Kule contributed to this story from various World Cup venues. Kule is a student in the University of Georgias Carmical Sports Media Institute.___AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/FIFA-World-Cup
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    Temperatures could hit 40C in UK as rare red heat warning issued
    The Met Office has issued a red weather warning over the coming days with the peak due on Wednesday and Thursday.
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