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txlseries4
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Sure to be one of the prevailing stories, Cabo Verde ranked 67 (now 64) with a population of 490k played and drew 0-0 against Spain today who are reigning European champions and ranked 2 (now 3!), and despite Spain dominating the game with 23 shots vs 6, 8 on target vs 1, 62% possession, 11 corners vs 1, and 764 passes vs 275. Got to imagine this will forever be a historic game for Cabo Verde.
Cabo Verde's goalkeeper, 40 year old Vozinha, was MVP of the match making some critical saves, but even crazier is he's worth ~C$80,000 on Transfermarkt compared to ~C$35,000,000 for 29 y/o Unai Simón. Before the game Vozinha had 50k followers on Instagram and he's at 2.9m just 4 hours later. hit 3m in the time I wrote this lol
I was listening to the BBC audio broadcast and the commentators were awestruck at the tenacity of such a small nation in their first ever World Cup appearance. It was unbelievably exciting. The highlight from TSN doesn't convey the tension but here it is
Cabo Verde's goalkeeper, 40 year old Vozinha, was MVP of the match making some critical saves, but even crazier is he's worth ~C$80,000 on Transfermarkt compared to ~C$35,000,000 for 29 y/o Unai Simón. Before the game Vozinha had 50k followers on Instagram and he's at
I was listening to the BBC audio broadcast and the commentators were awestruck at the tenacity of such a small nation in their first ever World Cup appearance. It was unbelievably exciting. The highlight from TSN doesn't convey the tension but here it is
txlseries4
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The upshot is there were not enough empty seats that the ceremonies volunteers were given access to watch the games. In a few of the US stadiums (Atlanta, Dallas, LA) big sections of VIP/boxes had so many empty seats large groups of volunteers were given access to watch games, I'm sure as a way to get bodies into seats, and the volunteers see it as a perk.
gabe
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Misbehaving fans force Toronto to cancel FIFA World Cup watch party.
Johnny Au
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Canada win over Qatar 6-0 with Jonathan David scoring a hat trick!
Oh, and Ismaël Koné is now out of the tournament from a broken leg.
All Canada needs to clinch the top of Group B and have the first two games in the knockout round in Vancouver is to win or draw against Switzerland.
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Oh, and Ismaël Koné is now out of the tournament from a broken leg.
All Canada needs to clinch the top of Group B and have the first two games in the knockout round in Vancouver is to win or draw against Switzerland.
David's bounce-back performance leads Canada to historic World Cup win
It was one for the history books. John Molinaro has the takeaways from the Canadian men's team finally earning its first-ever victory at a World Cup.
Monarch Butterfly
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Monarch Butterfly
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Guess his lips moved.
txlseries4
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This is a new rule to combat racist insults between players. Amazing to see it put to use.