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People are surprising their dads with the ultimate Father’s Day gift: World Cup tickets

Adult children are spending hundreds or thousands of dollars to give fathers a first World Cup trip, with videos drawing hundreds of thousands of views.

Summary by NBC Boston
Hayley Rodriguez’s father is one of many soccer fans who had always dreamed of attending a World Cup game. But when the global event arrived in his city for the first time, the ticket prices made him resign himself to once again watching on television in his Los Angeles home. What he didn’t realize was that Rodriguez, 21, had been secretly working with her two siblings to score tickets for him, checking daily to see if they could find a game the…

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NBC LA broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Sunday, June 21, 2026.
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