(6 Jul 2010) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Banner reading (Twi/English) "Ayekoo (Congratulations) Black Stars. We are proud of you."
2. Wide of crowd dancing and waving flags
3. Wide of South African plane carrying Ghanaian football team on tarmac
4. Ghanaian team walking across tarmac
5. Team waving to crowd of fans
6. Pan of team walking along red carpet, shaking hands with members of Ghana's sports council and parliament
7. Wide of team walking up onto stage, fans cheering
8. Crowd holding banner reading (English) "Kevin Prince Boateng Fan Club, Ghana"
9. Zoom in to fans holding banner reading (English) "Olele Fan Club" (nickname for Ghanaian goal keeper Richard Kingson)
10. Fans holding banner reading (English) "Leadership don't sell in supermarket, is God's gift. Stephen Appiah you are the leader."
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stephen Appiah, Ghanaian team captain:
"On behalf of the Black Stars team, I must say, we did our best to make history for our own people in Ghana and Africa."
12. Team members on stage clapping
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stephen Appiah, Ghanaian team captain:
"We're going to qualify for the 2014 and we're not just going to qualify, but we're going to Brazil to be a (inaudible)."
14. Close-up of fan waving flag with words reading (English) "Driving the passion", Ghanaian team bus in background
15. Pan of bus leaving with team on board
16. Close-up of woman dancing, wearing shirt in Ghanaian colours with the words (English) "Victory 4 Ghana"
STORYLINE:
Thousands of fans gathered at Accra's airport on Monday night to welcome home Ghana's national football team after they were knocked out in the quarter finals of the World Cup.
The team, nicknamed the "Black Stars", disembarked from their plane and made their way along a red carpet to a rapturous welcome from their fans.
Ghana lost the quarter final match to Uruguay 4-2 on penalties on Friday, after being denied victory by a cynical handball and a missed penalty in the last seconds of extra time.
The Ghanaians were the last African team in the tournament and team captain Stephen Appiah told the crowd on Monday that the Black Stars "did our best to make history for our own people in Ghana and Africa."
Support for Ghana swelled before last week's match, as they were the only one of six African teams in the tournament to progress past the group stage.
Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and tournament hosts South Africa were all went out after the first round.
In previous World Cups, Cameroon had reached the quarter finals in 1990 while Senegal managed it in 2002, but no African team has yet got further than that.
Appiah promised that Ghana's team would qualify for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.
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