The most emotional moment of FIFA World Cup 2026, a country with a population of only 5.3 lakh surprised world football.

FIFA World Cup 2026: FIFA World Cup 2026 is currently at its exciting stage. The excitement of the tournament is energizing the football fans all over the world. For the first time in the history of FIFA, a total of 48 teams are taking part, among which 104 matches will be played. All 48 teams are playing their matches in the tournament. This year in this Mahakumbh of football, a small country made such an upset that the world football was shocked. We are talking about Cape Verde, a small island country with a population of only 5 lakhs, whose 40-year-old brave goalkeeper Vozinha made football fans across the world emotional by playing a historic draw against Spain.

Cape Verde surprises the football scene by stopping Spain

In the FIFA World Cup 2026, a historic match was played between Cape Verde and Spain on 15 June. This match surprised the world football world, because the team of Cape Verde, playing its first FIFA World Cup, with a population of only 5 lakhs, forced a strong team like former World Cup winner Spain to draw the match on the score of 0-0 and registered itself in the pages of history. This can be considered one of the biggest upsets in the history of football. Cape Verde’s goalkeeper was the most talked about.

Cape Verde’s 40-year-old goalkeeper Vozinha did a historic feat

The biggest hero of this historic success of Cape Verde was the team’s 40-year-old goalkeeper Vozinha, who saved his team from defeat and pushed Spain on the backfoot. In this match, Spain had 74% ball possession and fired a total of 23 shots, but the Spanish players could not penetrate the defense of goalkeeper Vozinha. Vozinia blocked a total of 8 spectacular shots from Spain’s star players like Pedri, Gavi and 18-year-old Lamin Yamal and attracted the attention of football fans around the world. For his brilliant performance, Voziniya was chosen as ‘Player of the Match’.

🇨🇻 Cape Verde’s goalkeeper Vozinha becomes a national hero after a heroic performance against Spain in their first World Cup game.

An entire city came out to celebrate him.

This is what it’s all about.

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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 19, 2026

Goalkeeper Vozinha’s emotional moment

Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha became very emotional after the historic draw (0-0) against Spain in the FIFA World Cup 2026. He cried on the field itself, because due to huge expenses and visa problems, his mother could not come to the stadium to see his historic moment. Seeing him in this form, football fans around the world also became emotional. At the same time, after this match, Vozinha became popular on social media overnight and his Instagram followers increased from lakhs in a few hours to now crossing 1.5 crore (15.4 million).

Cape Verde is a country of only 5.3 lakh people.

Let us tell you that Cape Verde has qualified for the FIFA World Cup (2026) for the first time and in its debut match itself, it achieved a historic feat by holding the world number-2 team and former world champion Spain to a 0-0 draw. Cape Verde is a small island country. According to the data of the year 2026, the total population of Cape Verde is approximately 5,30,000 (5.3 lakh). Cape Verde is the 175th country in the world in terms of population. Praia is the official capital and largest city of Cape Verde, located in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa.

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