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Yesterday Nigeria and North Korea had a pre season friendly. Nigeria won the game 3-1 but nobody is talking about that. The game was subject to a crush in the crowd were 16 people were hospitalised.

This has sparked fears that the same will happen during the world cup games. This could be different though as one of the teams was Nigeria. It was said that 10,000 tickets were sold outside the stadium but there were more fans that wanted to get in.

The stadium that was used is not a world cup stadium and Fifa were quick to distance themselfs from the incident which was caused by poor ticketing

Contrary to some media reports, FIFA had nothing to do with the ticketing of this game.

With 5 days to go, the last thing Fifa want is something like this happening, The game didn’t have correct ticket distribution, however if people will do this for Nigeria v North Korea, i would question what the crowds would be like for two large teams.