Ghana – Ghana should be proud, coach says

“All I can say is this is football,” Ghana’s Serbian coach Milovan Rajevac said after his country’s exit from the World Cup in a penalty shoot-out with Uruguay.

“It was a very difficult game for us because in the previous game we also played for 120 minutes and in the end we had the historic opportuinity to reach the semi-final and we had the penalty.

“We have to be proud of what we have achieved. This is sport and justice. Today Uruguay were the lucky ones.”

Uruguay went through after a pulsating 4-2 penalty shootout win over heartbroken Ghana at Soccer City.

Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera saved skipper John Mensah and Dominic Adiyiah’s attempts after the quarter-final had been locked at 1-1 after extra time.

Ghana could have won the match in the last minute of extra-time but leading scorer Asamoah Gyan sent a penalty crashing off the crossbar after Luis Suarez had been sent off for deliberate handball on the goal-line.

Courtesy of  AFP