America: World Cup (FIFA World Cup 2026) is slowly becoming more interesting. Big teams like Germany, Netherlands, Ivory Coast have already departed. Kylian Mbappe's form has surprised us as much as Germany's exit.

He is joint number one with Messi (Lionel Messi) in the race for the Golden Boot in the World Cup. But the real surprise is Cape Verde (Cabo Verde). The country of 500,000 people is writing a fairy tale in this World Cup.

Cape Verde is playing in the knock out phase for the first time after getting a chance to compete in the World Cup for the first time. This time their opponent is the last world champion Argentina. Cape Verde is far behind in judging the two teams.

But even now their footballers are not leaving the steering wheel of success. Cape Verde goalkeeper Vojinha warned Argentina before the match. In his words, "We didn't really think before we started playing that we would reach this far.

But we thought we wouldn't win a single match. As it turned out, we didn't lose a single match. It's our dream to play against Argentina, Messi.

But we didn't come here to draw. We want to win. It can't be said that we couldn't win before.

We will enter the field as soon as we win." With him, the president of Cape Verde, Jose Maria Neves, is more convinced. He declared that his team had the ability to beat Argentina. In a recent interview with the BBC, Neves said, "I believe Cape Verde will beat Argentina 1-0.

Everyone's expectations for us are low. Maybe that's why we want to win more. We always want to surprise the people of the country.

We have a 100% chance of winning against Argentina." In addition, Cape Verde will honor Messi before the game against Argentina. The president said that Neves wants to present his number 10 jersey to Messi before the match. Praising Messi, he said, "Messi is a world-class footballer.

It is our privilege to play with him. Messi is very respected in our country. We want to give Messi a number 10 jersey.

Cape Verde will have Messi's name on that jersey." On July 4, Argentina will face Cape Verde at the Miami Stadium at 3:30 AM IST. Miami Stadium is the home ground of Leo Messi's club Inter Miami, so Messi will take a step forward, it is expected in football circles.