AL WAKRAH, Qatar — There was to be no redemption. Not for Ghana, and certainly not for Uruguay. At the end of a frenzied game, as Luis Suárez sobbed on the bench, Uruguay’s players surrounded the German referee Daniel Siebert, raging at the non-awarding of two second-half penalties, including one in stoppage time. They had won 2–0, but it was not enough. South Korea had beaten Portugal with a dramatic stoppage-time goal from Hwang Hee-chan in the group’s simultaneous finale to take second-place on a goals-scored tiebreaker.
For 12 years, one moment has haunted Ghanaian football.