FIFA confiscates Nigeria Football Supporters Club instruments

The World Football Governing Body (FIFA) on Monday confiscated musical instruments belonging to the Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC) claiming they constitute a nuisance. The over three hundred high-spirited Nigerian Supporters Club members were in a colourful procession after they alighted from their luxurious buses about 500 metres to the stadium and were joined by Brazilians who were chanting ‘Nigeria’ and dancing to the rhythmic and gyrating display by the Dr Rafiu Ladipo-led fans.

FIFA officials stopped members of the club from entering the Arena da Baixada Stadium at Curitiba in Brazil that hosted the Super Eagles and the Iranian national team.

The confiscation saga ensued when members of the club got to the entrance and were told by security personnel that FIFA had banned musical instruments, and that the drums and trumpets be kept at a store if members must go in.

The World football Governing Body had placed security personnel to refuse persons with any musical instruments entry into the stadium owing to the fact that it constitutes noise. 

Acknowledgment: theeagleonline.com, TUN Extra