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FIFA World Cup 2026, Spain vs Cape Verde Football LIVE Score: ESP start campaign against minnows CPV | Football News

FIFA World Cup 2026, Spain vs Cape Verde Football LIVE Score: ESP start campaign against minnows CPV | Football News

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FIFA World Cup, Spain vs Cape Verde Live Score: ESP take on CPV in Group H opening clash. FIFA World Cup 2026 Today Match Live Score Updates: 2010 champions Spain will finally be action after 3 days of the commencement of the World Cup when they take on minnows Cape Verde in the opening fixture of Group H at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The Spanish armada will look to make short work of the World Cup debutants before the tougher fixtures against Uruguay and Saudi Arabia roll in. It is for precisely that reason Spanish coach Luis de la Fuente might opt to start with a second-string side so that their main players are well rested before the Uruguay and Saudi Arabia clashes. Víctor Muñoz, Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal recently came back from spurts of injuries in the build up so they might play just cameo roles in this one. Story continues below this ad Their opponents Cape Verde, meanwhile, will hope for a more spirited showing than their fellow debutants Curacao who …

What links Cape Verde to Goa besides football? ‘Sodade’

What links Cape Verde to Goa besides football? ‘Sodade’

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3 min readUpdated: Jun 7, 2026 06:04 PM IST “If you write me, I’ll write you…If you forget me, I’ll forget you” Thus goes the melancholic Morna music from Cape Verde, strains of the song “Sodade” which will ring out at their FIFA World Cup games against Spain, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia. According to Bdnews24.com, the filk song “remembers the tens of thousands of emigrés who have left these 10 islands sprinkled off the coast of West Africa for work and opportunities abroad.” Their football team is made up of children and grandchildren of these same populations that left the islands for livelihood. The Blue Sharks who won 7 of their 10 qualifying games, are made up of similarly foreign-based players, even as head coach Pedro Leitão Brito known as Bubista — who was named Africa’s Coach of the Year last year and is better known by his nickname, Bubista — tries to weld together a unit capable of big upsets. Having shocked Cameroon in Qualis, he is entitled to dream more. Bubista told CNN, …

Ivory Coast Stun AFCON Holders Senegal, Cape Verde Into Quarter-Finals

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Hosts Ivory Coast stunned Senegal at the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday, knocking out the reigning champions on penalties in the last 16 to keep their hopes of winning the title on home soil alive. A week ago it looked as if the Ivorians were set for a humiliating group-stage exit from their own AFCON, but now they are into the quarter-finals after beating Senegal 5-4 on penalties following a tie that finished 1-1 at the end of extra time. The Elephants scraped into the knockout phase with the worst record of the four best third-placed sides to advance, after finishing the first round with a humiliating 4-0 loss to Equatorial Guinea, their heaviest ever home defeat. They followed that by sacking veteran French coach Jean-Louis Gasset and trying unsuccessfully to bring in former boss Herve Renard on a short-term deal. But instead former player Emerse Fae was appointed on an interim basis, hoping to rouse a shell-shocked team for a daunting tie against the holders. It looked like being a trying …