OFFICIALS of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, Nigeria 2009, say the Lagos State government has paid N32 million to buy seats at the Teslim Balogun Stadium for the tournament.


The stadium will host matches up until the semi-final of the championships and the state government has moved to ensure that there will be few empty seats to be seen.


“The Lagos State government has paid N32 million for 15,000 seats and the simple implication is that all the matches at the Lagos sub-seats would be jam-packed. This is what I expect other sub-seat to do.


“The 5,000 seats left in Lagos sub-seat would be sold on the streets and in Fifa’s rating, Lagos is already a success story even before the matches are played,” LOC Marketing Officer, Mike Itemuagbor, said.


He also added that the Eyo masquerade has been approved as the official composite logo for Lagos sub-seat by FIFA. FIFA has also endorsed the supply of 1,500 uniforms to be used by volunteers during the matches of the cadet World Cup scheduled to begin from October 24. And the 1,500 uniforms would be re-distributed to the eight hosting sub-seats from this week.


FIFA has also ruled that only the two captains would be escorted into the playing pitch before matches unlike in previous competitions where all the 22 players are escorted to the field before the commencement of matches.





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