Delirium, despair, pride: with the fans on Cape Verde’s World Cup rollercoaster

Delirium, despair, pride: with the fans on Cape Verde’s World Cup rollercoaster Rotterdam is home to 25,000 Cape Verdeans and 1,600 of them gathered in a beer garden to watch an unforgettable game against ArgentinaRotterdam knows how to script a football fairytale. Six players from the Cape Verde side who have lit up the World Cup were born here, nearly 5,000km from their parents’ islands. Five of them played against Argentina, the defending champions, in a bittersw