New Delhi, June 16 -- As a 17-year-old, the king of football had to wait two games before being unleashed at the 1958 World Cup due to a knee injury. Lamine Yamal, 18, Spain's footballing prince, started on the shaded second row of the bench, protected due to a hamstring tear he has just recovered from. After all, the European champions and strong contenders were only up against debutants Cape Verde in the Group H opener at the Atlanta Stadium on Monday. Maybe Yamal's trickery down the right from the start would have made a difference, but Spain were handed a humbling first half experience by Cape Verde, the smallest nation by area at the World Cup. The Atlantic archipelago is likely more used to turbulent ocean weather than the kind Spain ...