Ghana WC team visits Winnie Mandela, player sots

Описание: (3 Jul 2010)
1. Ghana's national football team walking up street towards Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's house in Soweto township
2. Mid of Ghana players stepping off bus
3. Wide of Ghana players walking towards house UPSOUND people clapping and cheering
4. Players walking past, zoom to Milan Rajevac, head coach of Ghana football team, giving crowds the thumbs up
5. On-watchers cheering and taking photos, pan across street
6. Security outside Madikizela-Mandela's house
7. Mid of Ghana players walking through gates of Madikizela-Mandela's house
8. Wide of Ghana players and coaching team exiting house
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Kingson, goalkeeper in Ghana football team:
"Yes, it's a big privilege for me and for the other players. You know, she advised our life, our family and our future, you need to be a good guy and need to take control of everything. We are the future of Ghana, Africa and the world, so we have to compose ourselves very well."
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sulley Muntari, Ghana football player:
"I don't know, it's a game so we can't say we were robbed, but we got the chances but we didn't utilise them, so this not robbing but we lost the game so we are not here to criticise anybody but we will try our best to do other things next time."
11. Ghana player having photo taken with police woman
12. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian with English continuous translation) Milan Rajevac, head coach of Ghana football team:
"It was a big success. You know, two big competitions within six months that we did well in and because of that we are very satisfied with everything we did. This is the biggest success in the history of Ghana, but of course we are sad after this match. We deserved to go through. We had the opportunity to qualify for the semi finals and to be amongst the best four teams in the world and I think Ghana deserve that."
13. Mid of Ghana team bus with slogan on side reading (English) "The hope of Africa"
14. Wide of team bus departing
STORYLINE:
Ghana's national football team paid their respects to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Saturday, the day after they were beaten by Uruguay and knocked out of the FIFA World Cup.
Ghana was the only African team in the tournament to make it to the quarterfinals and football fans across the continent were hoping to see the side advance to the semis.
South African fans started rallying behind Ghana after their own team was knocked out in the group stage.
Arriving in Soweto on the team bus, the players from Ghana were greeted by bystanders who cheered and applauded their arrival.
Ghana lost out 4-2 on penalties to Uruguay after their quarter final match finished 1-1 in extra time at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.
The Ghana players spent almost 30 minutes inside Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's house on Saturday.
On exiting the house, they were once again mobbed by local well-wishers, everyone wanting to have their photograph taken with the team known as the Black Stars.
For some of the players, meeting Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was a great privilege.
"She advised our life, our family, our future," said goalkeeper Richard Kingson.
On leaving Madikizela-Mandela's house in Soweto, the team headed across Johannesburg for a meeting with Nelson Mandela.

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