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Magnificent World Cup campaign puts Cape Verde firmly on the map
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Magnificent World Cup campaign puts Cape Verde firmly on the map
MIAMI, July 4 : Cape Verde's sensational debut World Cup campaign ended on Friday but not until they had taken world champions Argentina down to the wire and become the sentimental favourites of millions of fans around the world. A collection of 10 volcanic islands with a population of some 500,000 off the coast of West Africa, Cape Verde did not play a World Cup qualifier until the start of the century and were ranked 67th in the world coming into the tournament.The band of journeyman professionals and raw youngsters assembled by coach Bubista defied the odds from the start, though, holding former champions Spain and Uruguay to draws to finish second in their group.Their reward was Friday's last-32 tie against Lionel Messi's Argentina in which they twice came from a goal down in a pulsati
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