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With football fans
across the globe angling for tickets for the final of UEFA Champions
League, five Nigerians will today get lucky and win an all-expense paid
trip to London to watch the game.

This will be
courtesy of a draw by Heineken Nigeria for its consumers. The company
will tonight at its Champions League Planet House, during the second
set of quarter-final matches, pick the five individuals who will watch
the highly anticipated final encounter at the Wembley Stadium.

With each passing
year, the Champions League has grown in stature, attracting more
following across the globe. This has inevitably had the effect of
pushing up the cost of tickets.

This year’s final
match is expected to attract a minimum of £150 plus a £26
administration fee for general sale while the cheapest category four
tickets available through the clubs go for £80 but, the final cost may
be more, considering the fact that the bulk will come through ‘black
market’ purchase.

However, this
evening at the Heineken Planet House, five lucky Nigerians among the
numerous consumers that had been invited to the House for the matches
since February, will have the privilege of being among the 90,000 that
will watch the final match of the competition.

Besides watching
the final match, the lucky winners will partake of the numerous
activities lined up by UEFA as Heineken is one of the major sponsors of
the competition.

This evening’s
draws will take place intermittently during the live telecast of the
Chelsea/Manchester United clash and FC Barcelona versus Shakhtar
Donetsk quarterfinal duels, with the first two winners emerging before
the kickoff while at the interval, the remaining three winners will be
chosen from the lot.

The consumers,
assembled from different locations nationwide along with celebrities,
with former members of the Super Eagles and business leaders have been
guests at the Planet House located in Victoria Island, Lagos, for all
the matches from the second knockout stages of the competition.

Tonight, apart from
witnessing the break-or-bend first leg match at Stamford Bridge between
the English Premiership foes Chelsea and Manchester United, guests and
consumers will hold their breath in anticipation of who the lucky
winners would be.

Last season, Heineken sponsored five consumers -Funmi Taiwo, Chiwedu
Chukwu, Animashaun Kabir, Akeme Solomon and Taiwo Ajayi to the final
match between eventual winners, Inter Milan of Italy and Bayern Munich
of Germany.