“I’m proud of my team, they did fantastic and we really went far” Josimar José Évora Dias is 40 years old and has a nickname that means “grandma” in Portuguese.
No one would say so seeing him throw himself again and again between the posts in Miami Gardens, keeping alive Cape Verde’s impossible dream, the smallest country to reach the round of 16 in World Cup history. 🧤
Argentina took the lead with Messi, but Deroy Duarte equalized to force extra time. There the match went crazy: Lisandro Martínez made it 2-1, Sidny Lopes Cabral responded, and only in the 111th minute, after a shot from Cuti Romero, an own goal by Diney Borges sent the world champions through. 3-2 and that was the end.
Vozinha left the field receiving medical attention, exhausted, but with the phrase that sums it all up: “Everyone already knows where Cape Verde is”. And he is right. 🇨🇻⚽
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