WRAP South Africans bid farewell to Ghana WC football team

Описание: (4 Jul 2010) SHOTLIST
Soweto, Johannesburg
1. Wide of people on Vilakazi Street in Soweto district waiting for bus carrying Ghanaian football team
2. Men with Ghanaian flag dancing in front of bus
3. Various of bus carrying Ghanaian team and fans cheering
4. Ghana player waving to crowd from bus entrance
5. Crowd cheering
6. Ghana player waving from bus
7. Cutaway of security
8. Ghana football coach Milovan Rajevac
9. Wide of crowd cheering
10. Player waving from bus and crowd chanting
11. Various of Ghanaian bus driving along street lined with fans
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tumi Bule, Ghana football supporter:
"I'm excited to see the guys. They look (like) they've recovered from the whole drama, so I think we're all happy now. 2014, we'll be there. We'll win the World Cup."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Panesa Sekhoto, Ghana football supporter:
"I wish he came out of the bus, so I could hug him. I can feel him, I can touch him, so I can touch him."
14. Various of Ghanaian bus and fans
Johannesburg
15. Wide of crowd and Ghanaian team bus at the Melrose Arch Shopping Centre UPSOUND Music
16. Players getting off bus
17. Ghana fan dancing
18. Close banner reading (English) "Who says Black Stars can't shine?"
19. Close up of children wearing Ghana team colours
20. Ghana players walking through crowd
21. Various of Ghana players on stage
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Yusuf Abramjee, director of Talk Radio 702 and organiser of the event:
"Because they've done the African continent proud. After their performance we can hold our heads up high and say: 'BaGhana BaGhana (South African football team is known as Bafana Bafana) you've done us proud.'"
23. Wide of crowd and players on stage
24. Wide Ghanaian players on the stage, playing a drum and singing, UPSOUND (English) Ghanaian player (unidentified):
"I hope to tell you something better. We are proud of you, South Africans. You were very, very, very (inaudible). God bless you and god bless you again. Thank you very much. Viva, Viva, Viva."
25. Wide of crowd and stage
STORYLINE
Thousands of people lined the streets of Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg on Sunday to bid farewell to the Ghanaian football team.
The Black Stars had carried the hopes of a continent by becoming the only African side to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.
Ghana fell just short of becoming the first African team to qualify for the semi-finals of a World Cup when they lost to Uruguay on penalties in Johannesburg on Friday.
The Ghanaian squad also visited Soweto on Saturday, paying their respects to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela.
They later met Mandela himself in his house in the Houghton suburb of Johannesburg.
After leaving Soweto on Sunday, Ghana's players were given another big send-off at a shopping centre in Johannesburg.
The Black Stars are due to fly home later on Sunday.

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