India, June 22 -- Just 10 days into the FIFA World Cup 2026, the tournament has already produced several talking points. When it was announced that the competition would feature 48 teams instead of 32, plenty of scepticism followed, with purists arguing that the quality would suffer. However, the smaller teams have given the bigger nations a serious run for their money, and at the forefront is Cape Verde, an island nation off the western coast of Africa. A country with a population of just 530,000 is giving its opponents in Group H a major scare, and if there are any doubts, just watch the highlights of Cape Verde vs Spain and Cape Verde vs Uruguay.

Cape Verde now has a realistic chance of progressing to the Round of 32. They only need t...