The end came where it had all begun, one sunny autumn morning in 2010, just two months before Boys from Brazil brought their samba football here, and the FIFA World Cup bandwagon rolled into Africa for the first time in 80 years.
On those hallowed grounds of a school famed for its sporting excellence, which bred an iconic golfer who rose to become world number one in the '90s, the immortal Nick Price, the journey had begun under a blaze of great expectations as a nation dared to dream.
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