Intro:

Reaction from the Egypt players after the team arrived at Cairo international airport on Thursday.

Script:

SOUNDBITE Ibrahim Abdalkhaleq, Egypt midfielder:
" I don't know what say, we hoped to rejoice the Egyptian people. The players gave everything they could, but we have to thanks God. I hope the future will be better."

SOUNDBITE Essam Alhadery, Egypt goalkeeper:
"First of all, on behalf of my colleagues I would like to Apologise to the Egyptian people. The coaching staff gave all they could, and the evidence we had a lot of chances. I am not going to complain about the referee not awarding us a penalty, but as I said this is football. We have to search for the errors and try to solve the problem, and forget about passion, and think about the most important things, not every time we have problem we start to talk about old problems. I accept criticism, this is not a problem, but if I know this criticism will help. We have to talk about the right thing."

SOUNDBITE Arafa Al Sayd, Egypt forward:
" There are no reasons, we are a young team, we only have five or six experience players, and if we continue, we can achieve what the old team did, that's all I can say."

SOUNDBITE Mahmood Hassan, Egypt midfielder:
" We had a little urgency, we tried to score a quick second goal, but I don't know what to say."