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Last week, FIFA announced it received more than 500 million requests for World Cup tickets — with each request being an application for one to four seats at a specific game — during the month-long sales window.

For FIFA and Infantino, this demand for tickets was the perfect riposte to the criticism they have received for their ticketing polices this summer, most notably the record high prices.

“We had over 500 million ticket requests — half a billion ticket requests,” Infantino said, speaking at a World Cup-themed session of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos on Thursday

“And the tickets are not cheap. We were hammered — I was hammered, I should say — because of the ticket prices, because they are so expensive.

“The main critics were from Germany and England, of course. Now, number one in ticket requests is U.S., number two Germany and number three England. Because everyone wants to come and to participate.”