Africans 'can afford World Cup'

Pretoria, 02 March-(ANA)-A senior Fifa official has denied African football fans are being priced out of the World Cup in South Africa.

"It will be a real African World Cup," Jerome Valcke told correspondents. Most stadiums would be sold out, he added.

However, fans in the African countries that have qualified say tickets are being sold on the internet, to which they have limited access.

Furthermore, even if they could afford tickets, few African fans have credit cards, needed for online purchases.

"To sell tickets online is very unrealistic," Cameroonian football fan and librarian Kini Nsom Sylvanus said. (ANA)

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