9:26am Friday 16th July 2010
By David Hemming
URUGUAY striker Luis Suarez’s handball may have broken millions of African hearts during this summer’s World Cup, but children at a Bridgwater school made sure there was a happy ending.
Sedgemoor Manor Junior School held its own festival of football with 32 nations represented by 128 pupils in teams of four.
The tournament, which took place over three weeks, started with a parade of flags and opening ceremony while year six children made their own World Cup trophy.
Each team was made up of girls and boys from the whole school and the semi-finals were battled out by the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Ghana and Uruguay.
But, unlike the real quarter-final where Ghana were cruelly beaten in a penalty shootout after Suarez blocked a goalbound effort on the line with his hand in the last minute, this time they made it to the final to face Cameroon.
Before the showpiece both team paraded in front of the school before they listened to the national anthems, and Ghana went on to lift the trophy after winning the match 2-1.
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