They have yet to triumph at the World Cup, but they have won the hearts of the whole world with the miracles they have performed this summer.
Cape Verde, World Cup debutants and a country with a population of just under 500,000, have qualified for the knockout stages of football’s biggest competition with three historic draws.
The “Blue Sharks” from the Atlantic Ocean won a new and crucial point in Houston against Saudi Arabia (0:0).
The national football team, which is playing in the World Cup for the first time and for which the biggest successes so far have been two quarter-finals of the African Cup of Nations, will face the current world champion Argentina and the legend Lionel Messi in the 1/16 final.
For the first time in 20 years, a World Cup debutant made it to the knockout stage.
Previously they played 0:0 with Spain and 2:2 with Uruguay and thus without a single triumph with three points as the runner-up goes to the knockout stage.
Spain, which won 1:0 against Uruguay with Baena’s goal in the 42nd minute, won first place with seven points and will play against Austria or Algeria in the knockout stage.
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