On the evening of October 13, 2025, beneath a sky that smelled of salt and late rain, the small archipelago of Cape Verde came alive through the magic of football. Ten islands, sea-swept houses, and ...

Cape Verde will play in the World Cup for the first time after beating Eswatini 3-0 to win its group in African qualifying for the 2026 World Cup on Monday. The archipelago of volcanic islands off the ...

Cape Verde, the small African nation with a population of about 525,000 people, has qualified for the World Cup for the first time. The historic moment happened on Monday when Cape Verde defeated ...

CAPE TOWN, March 21 (Reuters) - Benin, the Cape Verde Islands, Gabon and Mozambique made up a quartet of unfancied sides who took over at the top of their World Cup qualifying groups on Thursday as ...

What if a country with a population that is 60 times smaller than Texas made the World Cup? That's exactly what Cape Verde did, as the country of approximately barely over half a million people will ...