A source who spoke to newsmen in confidence in St Petersburg revealed that the leadership of the football federation will procure match tickets for the over 500 Nigerians resident in St Petersburg and other 1,000 Nigerians living in the Russian capital city of Moscow to storm Volgograd to cheer up the and avoid repeat of the Kaliningrad experience.
Our source, who has lived in St Petersburg for over 30 years, expressed anger that little or no plans was made to match the arrangements by the Croatian Football Association that bought over 20,000 tickets.
“I think we did not just tidied up the arrangements very well because it was embarrassing that we could not mobilize Nigerians living in this country for that game.
“The population of Nigerians living in St Petersburg number over 400 and we have over 1,000 others Nigerians living in Moscow and these people were desirous of coming to cheer their national team to victory but they could not access the match tickets.
“In fact, Nigerians in Russia were surprised that while Croatia bought tickets for their fans, they were allowed to procure their own tickets for the game.
“I agree that Croatia has the advantage due to their proximity to Russia, but if we had at least mobilized the ones we have on ground, it would have gone a long way to help,” he said.
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