Fans have been celebrating Ronwen Williams’ heroics. Image: X
ICYMI: Relive Ronwen Williams’ penalty shootout heroics!
Captain Ronwen Williams propelled Bafana Bafana into the semi-finals of the African Cup of Nations with a superb goal-keeping performance. Take another look at how he did it!
Fans have been celebrating Ronwen Williams’ heroics. Image: X
Ronwen Williams saved four out of five shots in the penalty shootout against Cape Verde in the Afcon quarter-final game on Saturday night in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.
His heroics in-goal was what sent Bafana Bafana into the Afcon semi-finals, where they will face-off against Nigeria on Wednesday.
But before we move on to the next playoff match, let’s relive Ronwen Williams’ masterful goal-keeping one more time and relive all the anxiety and ecstasy that came with it.
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Coach Hugo Broos admitted that the tension of the match caused him to age a few more years, but Man of the Match Ronwen Williams saved the night.
“Let’s say six hours ago I was 71, now I’m 75,” Broos said as quoted by iDiskiTimes.
“It was a stressful game, certainly the penalties. You know what happens when you have to take penalties, it’s a very special situation for the players,” the Bafana mentor added.
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“Sometimes you do a little game after training, taking penalties and nearly no player misses a penalty but you see today what happened, not only with us but also the players from Cape Verde. That means, we can be happy, but players want to get a penalty. We were, not lucky because we had a very good keeper today. If you can save four penalties, this is not luck anymore. You can save one, but four, this is not luck.
“Ronwen Williams did not only that, he saved us two minutes before the end with a player that was alone infront of him. Yes, he was off the match. I think we could choose nobody else, because he is really Man of the Match,” the Bafana tactician concluded.
