Nick Miller

Very good, very hot, very tired, but in a good way.

Yeah, they were great.

I mean, the Spain performance was brilliant, but it was kind of survival.

They didn't really kind of do much other than defend for most of the game, which they were brilliant at.

But this one obviously scored twice, took the lead early on with a free kick from way downtown.

And they were sort of quite threatening in attack for the rest of the game, for parts of the rest of the game as well, certainly.

So, yeah, they keep sort of adding, sort of replacing their greatest ever game, which, you know, was the game that they qualified against Oswatini.

And then it was drawing with Spain 0-0 and now probably drawing with Uruguay 2-2.

I mean, I'm going to mention the magic word diaspora, which, you know, a klaxon's going to go off somewhere, I think.

Yeah.

So they're very kind of carefully and deliberately drawn in players from various places around the world where the players that have Cape Verdean heritage.

There's a lot of players from Netherlands.

There's a lot of players, weirdly, from a very specific neighbourhood in Rotterdam.

a lot of players from Portugal and obviously Pico Lopez from Ireland so they've done that and they've got this coach Bobista who you may have noticed is a fan of patrolling the touchline in jeans which are I mean that looks very sweaty but you know that's his style he's got a kind of cool uncle style kind of guy who's you know he's got a motorbike in the in the garage and just kind of

impresses you with it every now and then, that kind of vibe.

So yeah, he's very much the kind of father figure and he's been there for quite a while.

So yeah, and they do have some pretty good players.

I don't think anyone's going to be comparing them individually to Spain and Uruguay, but as a collective, they're very good.

Yeah, the national stadium in Praia is quite weird.

It's not a gleaming palace of football, but it's a perfectly good modern stadium.