New Delhi, June 26 -- HOUSTON - When Vozinha drove the ball into his chest in the sixty-first minute against Spain and the crowd at NRG Stadium rose as one, Cape Verde's goalkeeper was already writing a story this World Cup had not accounted for. On Friday, the island archipelago of 600,000 people completed it.

the island nation, in their debut World Cup, belongs in the knockout round.

Spain finished Group H as its winners. Cape Verde finished second. Both advance. Uruguay, carrying two World Cup titles and Marcelo Bielsa's tactical intelligence, is going home. Saudi Arabia, Group H's most physical side, leaves with a single point. The archipelago of volcanic islands in the Atlantic that had never previously qualified for a World Cup wi...