Fans hoping to attend next year’s World Cup final will have to pay thousands of pounds for the cheapest tickets. The fan group Football Supporters Europe expressed “shock” at FIFA’s “exorbitant” pricing strategy and demanded that ticket sales be “immediately halted.”BBC reported.

FIFA ‘betrayal’ as England fans face £5,000 bill for World Cup tickets,says all newspapers

For FIFA, it’s not football or football fans that matter. It’s about making money. They already earn millions of dollars from stadium advertising, not to mention the millions of dollars from live match broadcasts. With its practices in recent years, FIFA has essentially killed football and its excitement. It’s an organization constantly in the news due to bribery allegations. Therefore, when you think of FIFA, you think of money, not football. This is actually the reason why ticket prices are kept so high. For FIFA, power lies not in football, but in money.

If you ask whether FIFA will bring the increase in ticket prices back to a normal level, let’s just say: it’s a very unlikely possibility. Because those who consider money their god can legitimize any means to worship it.