Africa is in the grip of a passion - football. If there is one thing that Tiyane Tsumba,
the main man in Yellow Card, is passionate about, it's football.

On the streets of Highfields, Harare, kids are out early in the morning kicking around a
home-made ball. As the film begins, Tiyane is already playing for the local team, Highfields
Hyenas, who are trying to get to the top of the second division.

But Tiyane has his sights set much higher. "I want to play for Manchester United," he says.
His father, Eliah, is an old footballer and he knows the trials of an African footballer "if you
survive the women and the booze you have two or three years kicking about in the Premier league -
if your really lucky you end up sitting on the bench for Turkey".

Soccer is a big part of Yellow Card and trying to film soccer scenes was Huge, I mean do you
know how many extras you need to fill a soccer stadium??

Anyway, stage one - find a local team to be the "film" team, Hyenas. So step right up Zimbabwe's
own Third Division side, Fulham Vampires. Player-coach Bonnie Mukundu became the Hyenas' captain
James, and took on the job of choreographing football sequences. Soccer in the film is used to mirror
Tiyane's life so the trick was to show Tiyane upset, exhilarated or disappointed in the context of soccer.

The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) were stars in their own right, getting right behind the film,
in fact one of their officals, Ndumiso Gumede, plays the Coach in the film (and he's hot man).

The film crew were actually able to get access to the ground 20 minutes before a Zimbabawe U-23
International. So they got great footage of the Hyenas team running out onto the field in front of
a packed stadium of Zimbabwean supporters. The crowds hardly had time to register that this was a
"hoax" match before they had disappeared again and the real game kicked off.