Nigeria: Fifa Cancels Nigeria's 11,000 Ticket Allocation

28 February 2014

FIFA has redistributed about 11,000 match tickets meant for Nigeria, due to the apathy of the Nigerian public, who refused to buy the World Cup match tickets as at the close of the exercise on February 7, 2014. The implication is that only very few Nigerian fans will cheer the Super Eagles in their three Group F matches in Cuiaba, Curitiba and Porto Alegre.

This stark revelation was made yesterday by Head of Marketing of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Idris Adama. Adama disclosed that only 400 Nigerian fans had purchased match tickets by the deadline, prompting FIFA to reallocate the unsubscribed tickets to fans in Asia, Americas and Europe.

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