Other Games 2025-26

[Toronto Villa]

The lanky striker at Newcastle has done well since joining them. This is a cracking penalty yesterday.

https://x.com/eplbible/status/1975176040118194261?s=46

[Somniloquism]

I thought they were booking keepers for doing what that keeper did now.

[cdbearsfan]

Mon Cabo Verde!

[cdbearsfan]

Not a great start.

[cdbearsfan]

Yaaaassss

[cdbearsfan]

Boooo.

[Dave]

Finished 3-3

Beat Eswatini (bottom without a win) on Monday though and Cape Verde are there.

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah, nothing much has changed except Libya can't win the group.

[Somniloquism]

Aren't you cheering on New Caledonia v Gibralter?

[cdbearsfan]

I'm not that into friendlies, but I can't stay mad at Tariq's Hill, anyway.

[Pat McMahon]

Finished 3-3

Beat Eswatini (bottom without a win) on Monday though and Cape Verde are there.

Just heard a really good interview on 5 Live with Roberto Lopez, full back who plays for Shamrock Rovers and also Cape Verde. He explained what it means to play for a country of half a million people and how they came across him ( he received a call up in Portuguese and dismissed it as spam). If they qualify they’ll be the smallest team ever to do so.

In passing they also mentioned the Guatemala centre forward is a Brummie who plays for Swansea I think.

All on 5 Live tonight around 20:40-45 ish if anybody is interested

[Dave]

Finished 3-3

Beat Eswatini (bottom without a win) on Monday though and Cape Verde are there.

Just heard a really good interview on 5 Live with Roberto Lopez, full back who plays for Shamrock Rovers and also Cape Verde. He explained what it means to play for a country of half a million people and how they came across him ( he received a call up in Portuguese and dismissed it as spam). If they qualify they’ll be the smallest team ever to do so.

Second smallest I believe, after Iceland in 2018.

But it's absolutely the reason why the tedious bit of international football ("oh no, England only won 2-0 against Armenia and it wasn't the most exciting game I've ever watched, scrap the lot of it") is still worth it.

Cape Verde having their moment and going to the World Cup (Eswatini notwithstanding) is more important in the grand scheme of things than...pretty much all of it.

[cdbearsfan]

Agree entirely.

Elsewhere, Yeimar Mosquera's Colombia beat South Africa 3-1 to go through to Under-20 World Cup QF.

[Pat McMahon]

Finished 3-3

Beat Eswatini (bottom without a win) on Monday though and Cape Verde are there.

Just heard a really good interview on 5 Live with Roberto Lopez, full back who plays for Shamrock Rovers and also Cape Verde. He explained what it means to play for a country of half a million people and how they came across him ( he received a call up in Portuguese and dismissed it as spam). If they qualify they’ll be the smallest team ever to do so.

Second smallest I believe, after Iceland in 2018.

But it's absolutely the reason why the tedious bit of international football ("oh no, England only won 2-0 against Armenia and it wasn't the most exciting game I've ever watched, scrap the lot of it") is still worth it.

Cape Verde having their moment and going to the World Cup (Eswatini notwithstanding) is more important in the grand scheme of things than...pretty much all of it.

Sorry Dave, I should have specified they’d be the smallest by land mass. Rory Smith said about 4000 square km

[Richard E]

It’s not true. The Cook Islands qualified for France 98*


*when I played FIFA:Road to the World Cup on PlayStation