"Pay Your Child Support" – Argentina Wants Deadbeat Dads Banned From The World Cup

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Patrick Bet-David** (0:30)
Argentina decided to send a report to America for 13,000 fathers that are not paying their child support and said, You can't go watch the game.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:40)
Oh, man. You didn't see this? No.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:42)
So Argentina fathers must pay their child support before World Cup. In a post shared on Instagram, Buenos Aires Mayor George Macri explained why Argentine authorities asked US officials to block some fans from going into the World Cup stadiums. Those who fail to meet a responsibility as fundamental as feeding their children must face the consequences.
Can you go to the other? Is this a video or is this just a post that you brought up? Because if they do not provide their children, they will not be allowed in the stadium. The request reportedly covers about 13,000 Argentine parents. Most of them are fathers, superior in records for unpaid court, order child maintenance, bonus iris wants those names, flag during the match. How do you do that, Matt? Entry checks at 2026 World Cup venues. The idea is deliberately blunt. Officials are arguing that anyone able to travel abroad and attend the World Cup matches should first meet child support obligations at home. Can you imagine you're in line?
Messi. It's like, hey, Orlando, you got to leave. You haven't paid your child support payment. No, no, I will next month. No, no, you got to go.

**Tom** (1:47)
Show me right here. Venmo back to Buenos Aires.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:50)
Is there another story here that it goes?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:51)
Yeah, that they were all found in Chicago area.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:54)
By the way, how do you feel about this, Tom?
How do you feel about this? Public humiliation of 13,000, most likely all fathers, that are not paying child support.

**Tom** (2:04)
Well, first of all, I'll go right back to the previous story, but I won't touch on it. You have responsibility to your kids, and you're not meeting it, and that means that the state foster system or the welfare system has got to stand in the gap and now that system is standing up and saying, hey, Deadbeat, you have an obligation. What the hell are you flying to the United States to go see a World Cup match with whatever you paid for that when you've got child support back here? I mean, this isn't 13,000 people who won the lottery and got $50 tickets. I'd like to know what they paid to travel, what they paid for the hotel, what they paid for Uber, and what they paid for the ticket. And if you can do all that, you can take care of your kid. And I love this. And I love Argentine-Malay, once again, taking a step, trying to take what was previous and trying to move it forward. I like this.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:54)
Love what Tom had to say. He said the- took the words out of my mouth, and that was the word responsibility. I'll never forget. We were sitting around sort of a table like this in Vegas.
And you basically questioned all of us, it was the home team, including some other friends of ours over there, and you said, what does it mean to be a man?

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:11)
When was this?

**SPEAKER_3** (3:11)
This was six months ago. You said, what does it mean to be a man?

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:15)
Were we drunk? Was it late?

**SPEAKER_3** (3:17)
Vinnie was not drunk.
It was during breakfast in Vegas. We all went around the room, and everyone kind of gave their own context, and their own words, and their own different stories. And we all kind of, you said, put your phones down.
And nobody had the word. And then you said, listen, the word that it means to me is responsibility.
A man has responsibilities. The more responsibilities you have, the more man you are. And you were like, well, Adam, you know, you might be responsible for one or two things, but you're not as responsible as me, let's say, or as the next person wasn't as responsible. But when you have kids and you have a family, you got to be responsible. You got to have responsibility. So these guys who would rather put soccer above their kids, you know, recognize that you have a responsibility.