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

“This is the best thing I’ve ever spent my money on,” said one Pennsylvania fan who shelled out $4,000 to take her Egypt-born father to the Egypt vs. Belgium match in Seattle.

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.

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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 they could afford.

“It was just funny to hear him be like … ‘If only I was going,’ and in our head we were just like, ‘Just you wait,’” Rodriguez said. “It felt great to be able to surprise the one man that doesn’t accept gifts with the one thing he’s always mentioned wanting.”