Before making his World Cup debut, Sidny Lopes Cabral had a dream tucked away in his pocket: “To score a goal and make Cape Verde known around the world”. He said it out loud, unafraid that it might sound too big.
And football, which sometimes listens, gave it back to him exactly: a tremendous stunner against Argentina, right in his team’s World Cup debut. The camera found him afterward running, straight, without thinking, into the arms of his girlfriend Jayley.
There was no tactics or calculation there, just a real embrace that the whole world ended up sharing. 🇨🇻💙