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UK · 1 hrs ago
Cape Verde's soccer team returns home to huge welcome. The basketball team also has World Cup hopes
Have a weekend, Cape Verde.The national soccer team returned home Sunday as heroes after their run to the round of 32 of the World Cup and pushing Lionel Messi and Argentina into extra time. The men's basketball team clinched a berth in the second round of that sport's World Cup qualifying as well.And all this happened during an already joyous time in Cape Verde — Sunday was Independence Day.“Viva Cape Verde,” basketball coach Emanuel Trovoada said after his team beat Libya on Sunday in a World Cup qualifying matchup in Cameroon.Viva Cape Verde, indeed. Not bad for a country of about 500,000 people — the smallest, in terms of land mass, ever to reach the World Cup.Independence Day was already going to be a day of celebration across the island nation off the western coast of Africa, but Sun
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