Ingrid Finn

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

This World Cup really is the year of the keeper just one amazing performance after another

[Kourosh Ziabari @KZiabari]

The mistreatment endured by Iran football team at the #FIFAWorldCup is deplorable: singled out for visa games, denied their Arizona training camp, bullied by militant exiles in LA, a barrage of political questions at the presser--and they're the athletes of a war-torn country

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

The amount of grief nations like Iran are carrying while being told to just “play football” under awful conditions on US soil, after everything that country has done to their people, is obscene.

[HC @HCfootball01]

Think what’s impressed me massively this World Cup, is how for majority of games referees haven’t bought the theatrics of players trying to win cheap free kicks, just waved play on.

[Rob Palmer @robbopalmer]

Credit to Egypt 🇪🇬 and Cape Verde 🇨🇻
Silencing the ignorant football snobs who can’t see beyond the European old guard.

Showing there are top teams and talent beyond the borders.

Following the disruptors like Morocco and Croatia in recent tournaments.

[Cari @carinaabee_x]

The World Cup has confirmed that geography is taught somewhere between "not well" and "not at all" in North America.

[Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) @Malachians]

One of the wonderful things about this World Cup is the celebration of each other’s cultures and identities without repudiating someone else’s. Something we so badly needed in the current moment.

[USMNTrev @Eyesandvibes]

The fact that Cape Verde sent everyone forward in the 90th minute because they wanted to beat (NOT draw) Spain is everything that makes the World Cup beautiful.

What an incredible draw.

[Henry Hill @henry_hill94]

The closest team to scoring in the second half was Cape Verde. Let that be remembered

[Amos Murphy @AmosMurphy_]

One for everyone who dismissed the presence of the “smaller nations” at this World Cup.

One of the greatest World Cup results in history.

Unbelievable from Cape Verde! 🇨🇻

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Look at Vozinha at the end of this. Utterly emotionally drained. Amazing.

[Ingrid Finn @ingridfinn]

@Mark_K_Seaman @o_reachtaire So impressed by them, a bit more quality up front and they could have won it but a great result regardless

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

I’ve never been happier to see a football match finish scoreless.

What a performance from Cape Verde

[Zealand @theoldzealand]

Really goes to show that winning a match at the World Cup is ALWAYS a big deal, can never take a win for granted on this stage

[NepentheZ @NepentheZ]

I'm looking forwards to the posts from people who were slating the state of the World Cup due to the extension of nations involved.

What a moment for Cape Verde!

[Daniel Hussey @DanielHussey2]

What a result for Cape Verde and Pico Lopes. They defended heroically and almost won it at the end. Spain not at it and some warning signs for them already. Some brilliant stories at this World Cup. Great stuff.

[Adam Richman @AdamRichman]

Cape Verde playing with all heart, no brakes & that goalie?!?!

@Evra voice:

I LOVE THIS GAME

[World Cup 2026 @WorldCupMedia]

That’s a crazy save from the Cape Verde goalkeeper! 🔥

[Seán O'Connor @SeanOCSport]

Pico Lopes playing at the World Cup, what a stunning story.

Wrote this piece last Christmas about his journey from his bank job to playing on the biggest stage on the planet.

Sometimes dreams do come true.