Reaction to national football team's loss to Australia

Описание: (17 Nov 2005) SHOTLIST

1. Various shots of empty streets
2. Fans in a bar reacting to football match
3. Man with his head in his hands
4. Fans reacting to missed penalty
5. Various close-ups of worried fans
6. Fans watch Australia score winning penalty and then get up and leave
7. Dejected fans
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Vox pop, man:
"You can't only talk about this game because it's been years since we've shown the quality we used to have. We regained a little of our form in the second half of the match but it wasn't enough. I am obviously a little upset and I feel we should have made more changes in the second half."
9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Vox pop, woman:
"Why we lost is because of bad refereeing. We didn't play well but the refereeing was horrible."
10. Various of fans looking dejected

STORYLINE

The normally bustling streets of Montevideo were quiet on Wednesday morning as Uruguayans gathered around television sets to see if their national football team could qualify for the 2006 World Cup finals.

Uruguay was world champion in 1930 and 1950 and after the team won its first leg against Australia 1-0 in Montevideo on Saturday many were confident of going to Germany.

When Australia levelled the play-off on aggregate through Marco Bresciano it became clear to those watching at the 'locos por Futebol' (mad for Football) bar that Uruguay had a major fight on their hands.

The agony for those watching increased as the game went to a penalty shootout.

Hopes were briefly raised when a miss from Mark Viduka cancelled out an earlier save by Australian goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer from Marcelo Zalayeta.

Schwarzer saved the next penalty from Dario Rodriguez and John Aloisi tucked away Australia's fifth spot-kick to secure a 4-2 win.

Aloisi's goal was greeted with almost complete silence as everyone knew that a place at the 2006 finals had gone.

The last time Uruguay failed to qualify was in 1994, although they also sat out the 1982 and 1978 tournaments.

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