Ghana’s football team gets heroes’ welcome
After their heartbreaking loss to Uruguay in the World Cup on Friday, Ghana’s Black Stars have returned home. The BBC reports on the joyous scene:
Ghana’s national football team has arrived back home from the World Cup in South Africa to a rapturous welcome.
Thousands of dancing and singing fans welcomed the players – known as the Black Stars – at Accra’s airport.
“You’ve really held high the flag of Ghana and the entire African continent,” Deputy Sports Minister Nii Nortey Duah told the players.
The team is due to parade through Accra, to be followed by a free music concert in their honour on Tuesday.
Ghana, the only African team to progress beyond the group stage, went out to Uruguay in the quarter-final.
There were spontaneous shouts of joy at Accra’s airport as the plane with the Black Stars landed late on Monday evening.
Football fans, many of whom had started arriving hours before the team’s expected arrival, waved Ghana’s national flags and blasted vuvuzelas to greet their heroes in a carnival atmosphere.
“The Stars fought gallantly, not only making Ghana proud, but the entire African continent,” teacher Felicia Acheampong was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Ghana’s captain Stephen Appiah said: “We did our best but luck was not on our side but we’ll go to Brazil in 2014 to be major contenders.”
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July 17, 2010 at 10:11 am
Soccer is my favorite sport
Sorry for maybe off comment but some more history:
The modern rules of football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played at the public schools of England.
The Cambridge Rules, first drawn up at Cambridge University in 1848, were particularly influential in the development of subsequent codes, including association
football. The Cambridge Rules were written at Trinity College, Cambridge, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and
Shrewsbury schools. They were not universally adopted. During the 1850s, many clubs unconnected to schools or universities were formed throughout the
English-speaking world, to play various forms of football. Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the Sheffield Football Club,
formed by former public school pupils in 1857, which led to formation of a Sheffield FA in 1867. In 1862, John Charles
Thring of Uppingham School also devised an influential set of rules
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