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Spanish favourites hail down: "It was a disaster. Honestly«
Spain are
among the absolute pre-favourites at the World Cup – but disappointed badly in their opening match against the debutants from Cape Verde on Monday night.
From start to finish, Spain had both games and chances - but despite the advantage, the game ended 0-0.
Thus, Cape Verde could erupt in wild jubilation over its first ever World Cup point.
The Spanish media are not exactly impressed with the national team's efforts.
"A disaster from the start,"
writes Marca.
"Spain has made history... negative,"
writes AS, who writes that the match in Atlanta will go down in World Cup history - not for Spain, but for Cape Verde's efforts.
"In many years, it will be remembered that the European champions could not beat a team from a country with almost half a million inhabitants," he says.
"It was a disaster. Honestly,"
Mundo writes Deportivo.
"The difference between the Spanish national team and the one from Cape Verde was huge. The goalkeeper Vozinha was a hero, and a team composed of players recruited via LinkedIn prevented the victory."
Recruited on LinkedIn:
Roberto Lopes, who plays for Irish football club Shamrock Rovers, has said that in 2019 he was contacted via LinkedIn with a request to play for Cape Verde at the World Cup.
A query he initially ignored because he thought it was spam.
"Nine months later, they wrote to me again in English and asked if I had thought about the proposal, and it was only then that I did what I should have done in the first place, and Google-translated the original message asking if I was interested in representing Cape Verde," said Lopes, whose father was born in Cape Verde. to
Reuters ahead of the finals.
"It was a strange way to approach it. I was explained afterwards that they had had difficulty contacting my club, but when I saw that the opportunity was right in front of me, I was 100 percent on board from the first moment, and we immediately started to get all the necessary documentation in place.
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