After many continental level appearances, Cape Verde are ready for their opening act on football’s grandest stage.

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Playing for Cape Verde sounds brilliant. Granted, the team from a tiny collection of 10 islands, around 400 miles off the coast of west Africa, are not the best in the world. In fact, they are the ...