WRAP Italy team parades with trophy, cheered by crowds in Circus Maximus

(11 Jul 2006)

1. Crowds going wild as bus with Italy's football team drives near
2. Bus inching through crowds
3. Fans in Piazza Venezia; zoom-in to Italian Captain Fabio Cannavaro holding trophy
4. Fans
5. Fabio Cannavaro raising trophy
6. Trophy down to Cannavaro
7. People taking photos with bus in background
8. Various of crowd chanting outside
9. Mid of Italy's Luca Toni spraying champagne over the crowd from on top of bus
10. Cannavaro on top of bus raising the trophy
11. Francesco Totti waving and defender Alessandro Nesta pretending to throw his medal to the crowd
12. Green smoke, pan to big plastic pizza
13. Piazza Venezia pan to Mussolini's balcony
14. Faces in the crowd
15. Fabio Cannavaro holding trophy with flags in foreground
16. Crowd waving flags
17. Piazza Venezia, bus driving off
18. Wide of huge crowd celebrating Italy's victory at Circus Maximus
19. Red smoke flares in crowd
20. Back shot of Italian team on stage
21. Crowds waving Italian flags
22. Various of team on stage
23. Crowd
24. Team celebrating on stage
25. Close up of players, wrapped in Italian flag, holding the trophy
26. Crowd chanting
27. Fan tries to climb on stage
28. Players on stage with huge screen behind them
29. Crowds with red flares
30. Crowd singing
31. Crowd with flags
32. Some people in the Forum with Italian flags, watching the crowd and team in Circus Maximus
32. Wide shot of crowd in Circus Maximus with Forum ruins behind them

STORYLINE:

Carrying home their golden trophy, Italy's triumphant World Cup squad held a victory parade on Monday evening culminating in celebrations in front of ecstatic crowds of more than 500,000 fans.

The players stood on the top level of an open-roofed bus which struggled to move through thousands of fans, who, snapping photos with their mobile phones, ran after their heroes en route to the rally.

Fans on foot or on motorscooters had overwhelmed police escorts in the streets and squares of the capital, forcing the bus to a crawl.

Fans estimated by civil protection officials to number at least 500,000 had waited for hours for the players to arrive at the Circus Maximus, an arena built in ancient Rome, for a victory rally.

When the team arrived there were tumultuous scenes as the fans danced with joy in Circus Maximus.

The players at times were as delirious as their fans as they looked out over a sea of Italian flags and red flares.

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