A year ago, almost no one could locate Cape Verde on a map. Today, its goalkeeper, Vozinha, has 29 million followers on Instagram and is the most-followed goalkeeper in the entire world.
He told CBS that he can no longer go out on the street without being recognized, and that he feels proud to have put his country on everyone’s lips.
He wants to play one or two more years and is already negotiating with several teams, but he set one clear condition: “I’m going to choose a team that wants me as a footballer and not for marketing”.
And there is one fact that no one should forget: over the 90 minutes, his Cape Verde did not lose to Spain or Argentina, the two finalists in this World Cup. That memory, like him, has already been etched forever.