Abuja — The Nigeria Football Federation and the Presidential Task Force on the South Africa 2010 Ticket may have a hill of a job getting fans into the stadium for the Super Eagles match, this time around.

This is because the city seems to still be leaking a wound from the play in the team's last match against the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia when the visitors came back twice to win a valuable point. That the two bodies might have this problem is looking obvious in the turn up of fans at the training of the team.

As against the last time when they stomed the training of the national team en masse, Abuja fans are only turning up in trickles this time round. Even the sports journalists, whose presence almost became a menace for the team during their preparation for the Tunisia match, this time their presence could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

If anything, this could be a pointer to what the stands could experience in the Sunday match against Mozambique, except some urgent remedy is found.

Meanwhile, the NFF and Afribank Plc has reached agreement concerning the sales of the ticket for the Super Eagles and the Black Mambas of Mozambique clash. The sales should commence today.

The agreement is said to be at the instance of the bank, which feared there might be a poor turn out of fans given the reactions to the team's training and their disappointment with the team's result the last time.

The Assistant Secretary General, Marketing, Idris Adama, said yesterday in Abuja that the NFF had discussed with the bank and agreed to continue with the ticketing agreement irrespective of the fear of indifference by Nigerian fans.

"It is very painful that we did not win the match against Tunisia, which gave rise to the fears on both sides of the deal. But we are assuring everybody that the federation is poised to address the fears properly.

"We are not ready to reduce the price tickets for the match. We remain firm, believing that the same Super Eagles players that played against Tunisia would be the ones that will play Mozambique and Kenya."