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Cape Verde Has Half a Million People and Beat Cameroon to Reach the World Cup

Published on: Sunday 14 June 2026

On a September night in 2025, a chain of ten volcanic islands scattered off the west coast of Africa, home to barely half a million people, did something that should not be mathematically possible. Cape Verde beat Cameroon, a country forty times its size and a fixture at World Cups for decades, and in doing…

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