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Who on earth are Cape Verde?! Nick makes up a new chant and who's next on the plane to World Cup 2026?
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Nick and Ken discuss all things Cape Verde, the World Cup’s newest qualifiers!! Nick makes up a new chant and who’s qualifying in November and Ken’s back to form on Kenny’s Quiz – can you beat him?
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Introduction & Hosts' Banter
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freedom And you're listening to the Road to World Cup 26 podcast. A very, very, very warm welcome to you from wherever you are in the world.
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It's me, Nick Britton, your host as always, and delighted to be joined as always by the beaver. He's been busy gnawing on his pipe. Mr. Ken Davis. How are you, Kenny?
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Ken Davies
I'm good. It's got that. It's Halloween today. So nice of you to actually put the costume on. ah And it's I didn't think I would. But it's it's got that Friday afternoon feeling. We're recording this on a Friday afternoon.
00:00:46
Ken Davies
Everybody loves a Friday afternoon feeling.
World Cup Excitement & Cape Verde's Debut
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Ken Davies
We've got it. Looking forward to an amazing weekend of football. I'm looking forward to Roadster World Cup. This is going to be a big one. This is the one I've been looking forward to for a while.
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This is the one you've been looking forward to for quite a long time because we're going somewhere deep, deep, deep that we've never ever been before.
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Into the sea and into the islands, the scattered islands, the beautiful islands, the never before seen at a World Cup islands of Cape Verde.
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Ken Davies
Here
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really good change
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Ken Davies
we go. Here we go. build up that's bit of a let down to be honest
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No, it wasn't a build-up. There was just a really nice little just change of key in the middle of all of that. don't know if you picked it up. It went from major to minor. It went from, like Marchese, wave and salute to...
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Ken Davies
ah yeah have yeah yeah okay uh that is the slowest march since Marches were invented in slow land in 1750.
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not to admit why
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Ken Davies
That is...
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Ken Davies
that now that isn't getting me excited. I'm fred surprised Cape Verde qualified with that being played before the game.
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Well, strangely, that doesn't get them into the World Cup. But their football does. And a massive congratulations. That's what we're having a look at. Qualified Cape Verde, they are the first time they've ever qualified for the World Cup.
00:02:39
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The first time. And they are the second smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup finals. So congratulations to them. The smallest nation.
00:02:48
Ken Davies
Well, Nick, I a slight issue with you there.
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Eddie, being...
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Ken Davies
ah They are the second smallest in terms of population. Who was the first, by the way, terms of population?
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Iceland was the first.
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Ken Davies
Correct answer.
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right yeah they they played in Russia brain.
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Ken Davies
Correct. They are, in fact, the smallest a nation by land area to qualify.
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i
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Ken Davies
say yeah it's Cape Verde has only 4,000 square kilometres of land. I mean, that sounds like the size your garden.
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but size of your brain
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Ken Davies
Thank you.
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so
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Ken Davies
So there you go.
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It is well. but There we go. So they've done extra well. They've done extra well to qualify. And we'll be having a look at them. And who are they? How have they qualified? Who are their key players? What formation do they play? And have a look at the coach as well.
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and And we'll finish the podcast as we always do by predicting where they're to go, where they're going to end it
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Ken Davies
Well, doubt I'm not so sure that that's the quite the formality that you might think.
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Do
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you reckon? you reckon?
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Ken Davies
Hmm.
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I I think it probably is. Right, let's have a little bit breaking news.
Player Updates: Messi & De Bruyne
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A
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couple of bits of breaking news for you. ah This week, interesting, Saudi Arabia were offered Lionel Messi. the Saudi Pro League was offered Lionel Messi and they turned him down, yeah.
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Ken Davies
What?
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Ken Davies
Can you do that? Can you offer players like that?
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Well, they were offered him. In other words, Lionel Messi went offered and tried to go and play in the Saudi Pro League in the run-up the World Cup because the American season finishes very soon, doesn't it? finishes there's There's four months in between the American season.
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Ken Davies
Oh, I thought you meant Saudi Arabia were going to be able to use Messi in their team.
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No, no, no, no. you They might do if they ask nicely. ah But no, probably not. So Messi...
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Ken Davies
That'd be interesting, wouldn't if you could transfer players between countries?
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i've I've long since thought it was a good thing to do. You should have two players. You should be allowed two players in your team or squad from other nations. I've always thought that was a good idea.
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Ken Davies
Wow. That'd it interesting, wouldn't
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Yeah, I think so. So, yeah, this is a story that came this week whereby Lionel Messi had contacted the Saudi Pro League and said, look, I need i need a i need some sort of competitive game time.
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Not that competitive, but need some competitive game game time ahead of the World Cup because the pro season in America finishes very early. Any chance I can come over and play in the Saudi Pro League?
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Ken Davies
Get yourself into the championship.
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And the Saudi Pro League...
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Ken Davies
Get yourself to the race course in North Wales. We'll give you some competitive games.
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Yeah, I don't think quite that's ah what he had in mind. I think he wants somewhere hot, sunny, and where he's not going to be overly kicked into the stands like he would at Wrexham.
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Ken Davies
Yeah, that's fair enough. Fair enough. Worth a try.
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So, fans of the Saudi Pro League, unfortunately, aren't going to see Lionel Messi in the run-up to the World Cup. I mean, there is precedent, isn't there? Remember David Beckham went to Milan, didn't he? Do you remember but that? but Back in those days, after he'd signed for LA Galaxy.
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And when ah players can do that, they kind of... Because the American season finishes around Christmas, ah they can, or even before that, they can go and play somewhere in the new year. But...
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Ken Davies
Makes a lot of sense.
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so
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Ken Davies
Makes a lot of sense if you actually need to get yourself up to match fitness.
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like doing
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Yeah, yeah. No, I think so, but it won't be a Saudi. ah Right, and another bit of news, a bit of sad news, here a bit sad news, and that's concerning Kevin De Bruyne, one of our favourite players here on our other podcast, the Daily Premier League podcast.
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Ken Davies
Oh, yeah.
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He has given himself a rather nasty injury, which is all his casting concerns over his ability to play in the World Cup next year, which is a real shame because will be his last cup World Cup.
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Ken Davies
oh
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Ken Davies
oh
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Belgium will qualify and it'll be real shame.
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Ken Davies
We've got to get past Wales first, don't we?
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As I said, it will be as well last World Cup and will qualify. And it'll be a real shame not to see him.
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Ken Davies
Yeah, we'll play.
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But, yeah, done his thigh again, similar to what he did last year. They've look they've said said this week it's going to be four months at least rehab before he does.
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Ken Davies
Well, this is a pity and it really does start to cast some shadow on my prediction of Napoli winning the Champions League.
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I think i think the yeah the shadow was cast on your prediction of Napoli winning the Champions League the moment it came out of your mouth.
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Ken Davies
Yeah, I'm starting to regret that prediction, I must admit.
00:07:27
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I will go back. I'll find that and I'll keep playing it. I'll keep playing it. I'll keep playing it. And yeah, we'll see. Last bit then, and really this isn't this isn't breaking news, but it is a casting on net ahead of the next month. So it's November 1st tomorrow, Ken. Feels like winter.
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ah November 1st tomorrow. And this month is a massive month for qualifiers. By the end of November, we're going to have a full list of things to do because there's going to be loads more teams qualifying.
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Ken Davies
we already have mate we've already got eight looking ahead we've got eight to come seven more to come
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going to be more. mean, some of these, to be fair, we've already done because we knew it was going to happen, but... Deep breath, sit down, have a drink, get your pen and paper out if you want to write this down.
World Cup Qualifying Scenarios
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But France will be qualified if on November 13th they beat Ukraine. Switzerland will qualify on November 15th if they beat Sweden and Kosovo don't beat Slovenia.
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Ken Davies
Oh,
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And if they draw against Sweden and Kosovo lose, Belgium, minus Kevin De Bruyne, will seal their spot also on November 15th if they beat Kazakhstan. The Netherlands, if they beat Poland, will qualify on the 14th of November and Austria will qualify on the 15th if they beat Cyprus and other results go their way.
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Ken Davies
happen.
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Likewise, on on the 13th November, Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo et al. will qualify if they beat the Republic of Ireland. And if they draw the Republic of Ireland, they'll still go through if Hungary fail to beat Armenia.
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Norway will go through if they beat Estonia. And let's face it, Haaland will score at least 30 goals that game.
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Ken Davies
Wow,
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And fail to beat Moldova. If Norway draw to Estonia, which is very unlikely, Italy lose to Moldova, they'll still go through. And Spain will qualify on the 15th November if they beat Georgia.
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And Turkey don't beat Bulgaria. So there's quite a few permutations there, but likely it is. If they don't qualify, then they'll qualify anyway. So we're looking at, by the end November, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Norway and Spain joining from UEFA.
00:09:32
Ken Davies
wow we're going to be busy.
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in Indeed. um In the CONCACAF group, it's obviously still in kind of three group stages. ah Honduras will qualify for the World Cup if they beat Nicaragua and Costa Rica don't beat Haiti.
00:09:49
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And Jamaica, Steve McLaren.
00:09:52
Ken Davies
Yeah.
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Steve McLaren's Jamaica.
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Ken Davies
Yeah.
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They will qualify and be playing the World Cup if they beat Trinidad and Tobago and Curacao lose to Bermuda. So a fingers crossed for that one, mate, isn't it? It's got to be fun.
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Ken Davies
Curacao are decent, though. Curacao are decent.
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Yeah.
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Ken Davies
whats mark Mark my words. I think Curacao are the dark horses in that.
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my
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Ken Davies
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I think they are.
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but think Well, it's not the most ridiculous thing you've ever said. I mean, it's not far off it, but it's not the most ridiculous thing you've ever said.
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Ken Davies
You know my words.
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In Africa, we will know by the end of November who is playing, which team will represent the African Federation in the World Cup playoffs, in the Inter-Federation playoffs. It's going to be between, who is it going to be between?
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Gabon and ah Nigeria and Cameroon and Ivory Coast.
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Ken Davies
Cameroon?
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Ken Davies
Got a fancy Cameroon, Rennie.
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They're the four teams in the semifinals. There's a semifinal and a final. ah We'll know that by the middle of the month. And then, yes, the the longest ever performing, what was the qualification period of our entire world, Asia, which has been going on since 1922.
00:10:59
Ken Davies
Oh boy.
00:11:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Coming close. It's coming close. There's one playoff spot to get and Qatar and Saudi Arabia are already through. It's Iraq and the UAE, isn't it?
00:11:13
Ken Davies
Hmm.
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The Iraq and the UAE will now play over two legs for a single spot after the at the playoff tournament. So um one of those. So there we are, mate.
Cape Verde's Football Journey
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There we are.
00:11:22
Ken Davies
There's a lot coming our way. We're going to have Road to World Cup podcasts kind of stretching out for about three and a half months, aren't we?
00:11:31
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I know, yeah, yeah.
00:11:32
Ken Davies
We'll have to do week.
00:11:34
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I can do two a week. I can do two week. ah But so yeah, there is your breaking news and indeed a really good look ahead as to what's going on in this month.
00:11:43
Ken Davies
Thank very much, Nick.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
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I had to play that stink because reading all that out, thought was going to fall over. ah Right, Ken, and we're looking at Cape Verde today. Hooray!
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Ken Davies
At last.
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And I'm going to ask you to tell our beloved listeners and viewers a little bit about, well, I can't really do, this normally we do this team's kind history in the World Cup, but that's not really going to work, is it?
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Ken Davies
Yeah.
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This is a very short one.
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Ken Davies
No, we will we will dwell slightly on history.
00:12:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's see if you want to.
00:12:22
Ken Davies
ah Then we'll go through form, we'll go through the ranking.
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Give us a bit of camera.
00:12:27
Ken Davies
We always like Nick loves ranking. ah So we're going to do that. ah But we're going to start with some just a bit of background information. i'm not looking at you, Nick.
00:12:37
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You can't help to ease yourself out. You say these things and you're the only person who finds it funny and you just start giggling.
00:12:43
Ken Davies
Yeah, do. I know because I've got i've got a childish sense humor.
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that
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Ken Davies
Right, Kate Verde, known as the Blue Sharks. ah they By the way, we should set this in context. They only became independent from Portugal in 1975, so they weren't even a country before 1975. They played their first international match on the April 1978.
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Ken Davies
ah And they lost 1-0 to Guinea. ah Not a very auspicious start, but since then, since then, things have gone inexorably upwards.
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Ken Davies
So, by the way, with them only playing their first game in 78, they're really one of the youngest teams at the at the World Cup. ah Because mostly, even the smaller teams were playing football long before them.
00:13:30
Ken Davies
So they've qualified for 2026. As Nick said, they are the second least populated to do that. They are the smallest, as we found out, by land area to qualify there.
00:13:41
Ken Davies
Cape Verde, by the way, is an archipelago. What, Nick, is an archipelago?
00:13:50
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and It's a mass of land, or a mass of manned, hey, what? can tell it's Friday afternoon, it's been a long week, my friend. it's and I do know what an archipelago is. It's a it's a um it's a thing whereby there's islands and seas and it's next to a landmass.
00:14:03
Ken Davies
It's...
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Ken Davies
Kinda. I don't think it needs to be next to a landmass. It's a group of islands that kind of stick out in an ocean, often formed by volcanic activity. They don't have to be near anything.
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Ken Davies
They can be in the middle of anywhere. Hawaii is a kind of archipelago.
00:14:27
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i'm already I'm already rewriting Kenny's quiz because like three three of the answers have already come in the first two minutes the podcast.
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Ken Davies
Oh.
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Ken Davies
All right, how many islands are there in the archipelago of Cape Verde? 10, there are. ah so
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Global Sports Podcast Network
No, the main question is the main question was going to be, it's not anymore, one of the questions was going to be how are the islands formed? But you've already come.
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Ken Davies
Primarily by volcanic activity.
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very
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Ken Davies
um
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Correct.
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Ken Davies
so And they first attempted to reach World Cup final back in 2002. I think was think that was the Japan-South Korea one.
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And a career, yeah.
00:14:57
Ken Davies
So there is no history to Cape Verde in in the World Cup. But there is form because, obviously, they have been playing in all the qualifiers. ah So, obviously, say they although they're in the middle of the Atlantic, they play in CAF, if you like, the African Federation.
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Ken Davies
ah they've played nine games 2025 already, They have... ah and they're unbeaten they have Won six of them, drawn three of them, only conceded six goals, which is part of what their thing is.
00:15:31
Ken Davies
Three of them were in the in the same game against Libya. ah But their victories have included victories against Cameroon. That was the big one. That was the one that got them really got them into the World Cup. They beat Cameroon.
00:15:45
Ken Davies
ah But apart from Cameroon, the opposition is pretty consistently poor. Games against Mauritius and Malaysia and Eswatini. What did Eswatini used to be called, Nick?
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Ken Davies
Back in the old money.
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Swaziland.
00:16:02
Ken Davies
Correct answer.
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Come on.
00:16:04
Ken Davies
Well done. They obviously played 10 games in their group D qualification group as part of CAF. They won seven of those, lost two of those. No, sorry, drew two of those and lost one of them. So, ah hey, you can only put you only beat what's put in front of you, but what's been put in front of them isn't exactly ah the top quality in world football.
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Ken Davies
Now, here's an interesting one. This surprised me. ah Ranking. up At the turn of the century, and that is 2000, they were ranked 182nd. Obviously, that's close to being essentially a Kirk Langley WI ah in terms of your footballing prowess.
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Ken Davies
ah Most of you will have no idea what that refers to, but that's fine. ah
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The next
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That's all you need to worry about. 53.
00:17:05
Ken Davies
the next 15 years was one of the most remarkable rises of football. 15 years, not to now, but 15 years. 2008 to 2014. What position were Cape Verde in 2014, Nick? They started at 182.
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Ken Davies
what position where cape verdy in two thousand and fourteen nick they started at one hundred and eighty two
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fifty three
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Ken Davies
27th.
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Ken Davies
That's a wow, isn't it? They went in 14 years from 182nd to 27th in the world. That's a ahead of really, really well-recognized teams.
00:17:47
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going to say that puts them ahead of some really good teams at that time.
00:17:50
Ken Davies
ah do It does.
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Really good.
00:17:51
Ken Davies
Remarkable. Remarkable. And they've kind of stayed at that level for a couple of years in the 20s, but they've settled back down now. and And they have, although they've qualified for first World Cup, we've got to remember this in the context of 48 teams.
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Ken Davies
It's also in the context of a pretty easy group and they beat Cameroon.
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Yeah.
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Ken Davies
That's all you needed to do.
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yeah
00:18:09
Ken Davies
It's all you needed. Poison the Cameroon team. I'm not saying that happened. Poison the Cameroon team before you play them at home. You're qualifying for the World Cup, essentially. ah So...
00:18:20
Ken Davies
They are now around the 70th level and that's where they generally sit. So although they are qualified for 48-team tournament, they are in fact, I think, 70th, 71st as we sit here today.
00:18:34
Ken Davies
So that's Cape Verde.
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That's good going, isn't it?
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Ken Davies
They've
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Yeah, no, that's good going. ah ah They've done well. They're punching well above their
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Ken Davies
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Cape Verdean Players to Watch
00:20:07
Ken Davies
now You know what? That should be the Cape Verde National Anthem.
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we Yeah, it's called ah a beat drop, not a mic drop, but you were close.
00:20:13
Ken Davies
Oh, I don't know.
00:20:13
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It's a bit early to get your pipe out. Right, we're going to look at three key players for Kate Birdie.
00:20:20
Ken Davies
Yeah, go on. Knock yourself out. I'm looking forward to this.
00:20:22
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No, no, mate, I've been digging. I've been digging. Oh, have you?
00:20:26
Ken Davies
Okay.
00:20:28
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There's, there's, yeah, hmm.
00:20:34
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Let's start a goalie, shall we? Because always like to start with a goalie. And that's Shosimar Jose Evora Diaz, better known as Vozinha. Vozinha is the goalkeeper Cape Verde.
00:20:43
Ken Davies
Rosinha!
00:20:46
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Plays for Chavez. He has 81 caps. Now, now, Kenny. Interesting fact, number one coming up.
00:20:55
Ken Davies
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
When he plays... at the World Cup next year, as he undoubtedly will, I hope, barring any kind of injury or anything like that, he will play. He will become the seventh oldest player ever to play at a World Cup.
00:21:08
Ken Davies
Wow! How old is he?
00:21:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Impressive. I don't know too fair. After a couple of days, he'll be the eighth. He, at the moment, he is 39 years He'll be 40 years old.
00:21:18
Ken Davies
Oh, he's a baby. He's a baby in in goalkeeping terms.
00:21:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
He'll be 40 when the World Cup kicks off. In fact, he'll be 40 years and eight days, and which will put him in eighth position.
00:21:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah If, and this is as much incentive as you possibly want, if Cape Verde gets to the final, on the on the day of the final, he will equal the seventh-placed player who has 40 years and 38 days on his record.
00:21:29
Ken Davies
Wow.
00:21:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Monsignor will be 40 years and 38
00:21:50
Ken Davies
Well, that is amazing.
00:21:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
so See, I bet you didn't think i was going to say that, did you?
00:21:54
Ken Davies
I did not.
00:21:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
dig up these interests if I do a lot of research in this podcast. I do a lot of digging. So I'm now going to ask you, in that case, and anybody at home, and if you listen to this, please shout out the answer. I should have put this in Kenny's quiz, but I haven't.
00:22:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Who is the oldest player ever to play at World Cup Finals, and how old is he?
00:22:12
Ken Davies
I'm getting Roger Miller vibes.
00:22:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know.
00:22:15
Ken Davies
I don't know why, but I've got a feeling someone like that. So Roger Miller of whoever he played for, 42. Am Right.
00:22:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. Well, you are right. um In as much as Roger Miller was 42 years and 39 days when he played for Cameroon in the World Cup, but he's only number three on the list.
00:22:25
Ken Davies
um money
00:22:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's the third oldest player.
00:22:34
Ken Davies
right
00:22:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
The second is Farid Mondragon, who played for Colombia in 2014 at the age of 43 and three days. And the oldest player ever to play in the World Cup is Esam El Hadari, who was a junior player.
00:22:46
Ken Davies
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. why I'm kicking myself now, Nick.
00:22:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
is Well, I hope you are, because you should have known this. He played in Russia in 2018. He was 45 he was 161 days. 45, 161 days. was striker. He was striker well. forty five hundred and sixty one he was a strong
00:23:00
Ken Davies
I thought you were going to say he 106 then. But anyway, that is astonishing.
00:23:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
he was a striker as well so
00:23:06
Ken Davies
By the way, just ah so as an aside, i was looking at the odds of who's going to win the World Cup. Cape Verde or 1,000 1.000? This, and in a quiet moment yesterday, I was thinking about this.
00:23:20
Ken Davies
Considering the World Cup, if they are 1,000 to 1, that means in 1,000 occasions of the World Cup, they'll win it once.
00:23:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
and don Well, so
00:23:27
Ken Davies
Given that the World Cup is every four years, Kate Birdie are going to win the World Cup once every 4,000 years.
00:23:36
Ken Davies
Which just struck me as interesting.
00:23:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
but it's interesting if they were ever going to win the World Cup.
00:23:41
Ken Davies
Well, they are, if if you agree that it's 1,000 1 chances.
00:23:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
But they were. OK. okay you so ah Well, it doesn't really work like that, does it? Anyway, whilst I've just finished on my list of very old players. but No, it doesn't, does it? Because when isn it's not a fact.
00:23:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's bookies odds, which don't mean anything.
00:23:55
Ken Davies
It's a chance, it's the probability.
00:23:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Yeah. Judged by who?
00:24:01
Ken Davies
Yeah, it's not it's not a very...
00:24:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah that it follow and i went there If I went down to bookies tomorrow and lumped a million quid on Cape Verde, there wouldn't be 1,000 to 1, would they? They'd be down to like 4 to 1 or to 1. And then you go, oh, they must win it every three times, every 12 years.
00:24:16
Ken Davies
okay Okay, I don't understand what you mean.
00:24:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
i di on one
00:24:18
Ken Davies
Yeah, the odds of bookies aren't purely based on probability, it's based on the book itself.
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
there's only one of anybody There's only one of us who is applying Sherlock Holmes-style logic, and not the going to type in his mouth.
00:24:23
Ken Davies
Okay, okay, Nick. i I get it. Go on.
00:24:31
Ken Davies
Yeah. Okay.
00:24:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, oh yeah, just shut up. and Let me finish my old list of old players, because this is interesting. Of the 10 oldest players who've played in the World obviously eight of them are goalkeepers.
00:24:45
Ken Davies
Yeah. Makes sense.
00:24:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Eight of them are goalkeepers. and And Roger Miller was was the only outfield player in the top five. As we said, he was 42. The other outfield player came in at number 10, Altiba Hutchinson, who was Canadian.
00:24:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was 39 years old, 288 days. But he was a winger when he played in 2022. That's a good guy, isn't it?
00:25:05
Ken Davies
That's where we're from, weren't you?
00:25:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a good guy. I just thought i' mention that because goalkeepers,
00:25:07
Ken Davies
He wasn't exactly flying winger though, I'd imagine, was he? He was tucking in a bit, I would imagine.
00:25:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was were know he was known as was known as the chugging Canadian. That was his nickname. Because he was kind of...
00:25:18
Ken Davies
Yeah, chugging isn't exactly express train, is it?
00:25:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
yes
00:25:21
Ken Davies
It's either the engine.
00:25:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. so Anyway, so look good luck to Vosinia.
00:25:30
Ken Davies
Oh, yeah.
00:25:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
And let's get the World Cup finals and equals seventh spot with Ali Boumnijel from Tunisia. yeah ah Right, okay.
00:25:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Second player. And he's a player we have seen a lot of in the last two to three weeks since Cape Verde qualified. And I'll tell you why. His name is but Roberto Carlos Lopez, 33 years old, known as Pico.
00:25:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
they seem to have They all seem to names, these people.
00:25:56
Ken Davies
It's a Brazilian Portuguese thing, isn't
00:25:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. um And the reason why we've seen so much of him is a centre-back for which team?
00:26:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's been all over the media all over here in the UK.
00:26:08
Ken Davies
it? Does he play in the UK?
00:26:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, in a kind of no. No, no, but yes.
00:26:16
Ken Davies
I have no idea, Nick.
00:26:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
he plays in He plays for Shamrock Rovers in the Irish Premier Division.
00:26:22
Ken Davies
Oh, yeah. He's been everywhere, hasn't Yeah, he's been on like the news, the main news, all the newspapers, front page.
00:26:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're being so grumpy today. yeah Why don't you need to stick something in your pipe and smoke it?
00:26:36
Ken Davies
I do, I do, I do.
00:26:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Why don't you catch it?
00:26:37
Ken Davies
Sorry, I must have missed it. I must have missed him.
00:26:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, well, I'll tell you why, because I do the research on this podcast for both of us.
00:26:42
Ken Davies
Hmm.
00:26:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
movement And therefore, I am all over the news all of the time.
00:26:46
Ken Davies
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
And one guy who was just getting interviewed relentlessly because he plays for Shamrock Rovers.
00:26:49
Ken Davies
Oh, about the Cape Verde qualification.
00:26:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the UK interest is he plays in Ireland. That's why they were picking on him rather than any other player.
00:26:58
Ken Davies
Right, I'm with you.
00:26:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's how journalism works, mate. I wonder do I bother. Can we get somebody else so <unk> real to do this with me? Jeez. Anyway, he's a centre-back for Shamrock Rovers.
00:27:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
and He was born in Ireland. He played for the Irish youth teams, but he has a Cape Verdean father. So, opted to play for Cape Verde. Made his debut in 2019 and been a regular ever since.
00:27:21
Ken Davies
A team.
00:27:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
lock Sorry, what?
00:27:25
Ken Davies
They're the better team, probably.
00:27:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
You got something to say? Okay, right. Okay. Thanks for shipping in. And it's been a very good week. It's been a very good couple of weeks for Pico because not only did Cape Verde qualify, but he missed much of the celebrations because he dashed back on a plane because his wife was about to give birth and they've had a young woman called Diego.
00:27:43
Ken Davies
no.
00:27:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
And two days ago, Shamrock Rovers won the Irish Premier Division. for the fifth time in six years. So in the space of three or four weeks, it's qualified for one.
00:27:53
Ken Davies
Already? Already? It's October. How can they win the competition in October? but
00:28:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because they have.
00:28:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because they have.
00:28:06
Ken Davies
Great. Congratulations, Shavart Rovers. There's only two teams in it, obviously.
00:28:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
but Limerick, I suppose, the other isn't it?
00:28:11
Ken Davies
Yeah, that's fair enough.
00:28:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, okay.
00:28:14
Ken Davies
Great.
00:28:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Last player then. ah Let's just see what you've say about this. ah Ryan Mendes, 35 years old. a veteran winger, plays the Turkish League One club. Ygdir, spent most of his club career in France with La Havre and Lille and played also in the Saudi Pro League. Played 25 times for which Premier League team back in about, think it was about 2016. Can't remember what.
00:28:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
remember
00:28:39
Ken Davies
I'm going to go for Norwich.
00:28:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll give you clue.
00:28:44
Ken Davies
Norwich.
00:28:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
They were weren't in the Premier League at that time, I should say.
00:28:46
Ken Davies
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
00:28:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're in the Premier League now, but not the Premier League.
00:28:48
Ken Davies
Bournemouth. Bournemouth.
00:28:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:28:51
Ken Davies
Bournemouth.
00:28:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, just down the road here, Nottingham Forest. Played for them.
00:28:53
Ken Davies
um
00:28:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
And couple of other Super League teams in Turkey. So he's their captain. 84 caps. Made his debut in 2010. Played in the African Cup of Nations with them a few times.
00:29:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Strangely enough, despite their massive World Cup success, by the way, in getting through, they haven't qualified for AFCON, which starts in December.
00:29:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
They had a terrible... Yeah, they a poor...
00:29:13
Ken Davies
Terrible record in Afghan.
00:29:14
Ken Davies
Terrible record in Afghan.
00:29:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
So Ryan Mendes, now Kenny... I don't know whether this going to impact on your decision here, but in in your in your feelings about how Cape Verde are going to get on, but I've mentioned three players. One is 39 years old, one is 33 years old, and one is 35 years old.
00:29:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is there a current a little theme here?
00:29:29
Ken Davies
Yeah. Yeah, there's only 11 qualified players in Cape Verde. And so they're going to be playing for him in in another 30 years as well.
00:29:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:38
Ken Davies
Now, I suspect there's an issue, isn't there, there? They're probably... Hey, look, what interests me about when they played against Cameroon and they beat Cameroon and Guaymo's playing for Cameroon.
00:29:50
Ken Davies
I mean, they're not terrible players that they're playing against and they done they still win. So, you know, they've got... I think they know what their strengths and they stick to them. Let's put it that way.
00:30:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Old players, I think is probably it.
00:30:03
Ken Davies
yeah
00:30:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I agree. No, I agree. I agree. I agree. And let's hope they do well. So they're they're three key players. We've talked a little bit about the team. What formation do they play?
00:30:14
Ken Davies
Okay, this is, again, quite straightforward in relation to Cape Verde. They play 4-2-3-1. They always play except on the very rare occasion, or not so rare occasions actually, when they're playing particularly weak opposition.
00:30:31
Ken Davies
So for example, against Mauritius, ah very low down in the yeah in the world rankings. ah They played a 4-3-3, a more attacking 4-3-3 formation.
00:30:42
Ken Davies
But take the Mauritius games out of the equation, home and away, all you ever see is a 4-2-3-1. So I think, given the fact that Mauritius are pretty unlikely to qualify, in fact, can't qualify for this year's World Cup, and it's probably likely that every team they're going to face is going to be higher than them in the world rankings, they're higher You're looking at a 4-2-3-1.
00:31:01
Ken Davies
And that helps them because they actually concede relatively few goals because they're really quite a defensive setup.
Cape Verde Quiz
00:31:21
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Are you ready, Kenny?
00:31:22
Ken Davies
Oh, yeah.
00:31:29
Ken Davies
alice
00:31:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's everybody's favourite time in a week now. It's time for Kenny's quiz.
00:31:33
Ken Davies
Oh, yeah, here we go.
00:31:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah high power e
00:31:35
Ken Davies
Three out of three last time.
00:31:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, you've had you've had a couple of three-out-of-threes in the last three weeks, I think.
00:31:40
Ken Davies
Oh, yeah.
00:31:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Your form is good, my friend.
00:31:42
Ken Davies
I'm hitting my mid-season form, I think.
00:31:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's
00:31:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is. You might want to tell Rexham to do the same. So, yeah, here we go.
00:31:47
Ken Davies
Mm-hmm.
00:31:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well,
00:31:51
Ken Davies
I've got a bad feeling about this, though, because I know nothing about them.
00:31:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
order No, I don't think you need to. i've I've tried in recent months to make the questions a bit easier because I felt a bit bad for you getting everything wrong all the time. And I want people to play at home, ah sorry, play along at home and and enjoy all this and shout out the answers and all that. So I think this is quite straightforward.
00:32:08
Ken Davies
Okay, let's go.
00:32:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm expecting...
00:32:13
Ken Davies
Two.
00:32:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, i think three I think three is easily achievable this week.
00:32:16
Ken Davies
We'll see.
00:32:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Easily achievable.
00:32:17
Ken Davies
I have zero knowledge, okay, everybody, so I can't see how that can happen. Okay.
00:32:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
You don't need to. Okay, question one. And again, play along at home, if you will. Shout out the answers. Which is the nearest country to Cape Verde by miles? Which is the nearest, as in the crow flies, which is the nearest country to Cape Verde in miles by the crow, goodness, make it worse, the way the crow flies.
00:32:40
Ken Davies
That's really quite tricky because you've got to know where Cape Verde is, and that's probably a bit of homework I should have done.
00:32:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh
00:32:51
Ken Davies
i'm goingnna it's I'm going to go, it's got to be Africa because they're in the African thing, and so therefore I think it's got to be Africa.
00:33:00
Ken Davies
How far down are they, though? I don't think they're that far down, but they're a lot further down than, say, Africa. Tenerife or Lanzarote. So they're further down than that.
00:33:11
Ken Davies
So I'm going to say there's going to be some island. No, there's going to be some mainland part of Africa. I'm going to say Namibia.
00:33:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, Nomibia. No, it's not. note the article was No, the answer is Senegal.
00:33:26
Ken Davies
Oh, disappointing.
00:33:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's not far away from Senegal, actually, because Senegal kind of points out a bit. And Dakar is the capital Senegal.
00:33:34
Ken Davies
Yeah.
00:33:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's right on the coast.
00:33:37
Ken Davies
Yeah.
00:33:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's 100 miles from Cape Verde.
00:33:40
Ken Davies
Wow.
00:33:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
So the answer is Senegal. So if you wanted to go, if you're in Cape Verde and thought, right, I'm going to make a swim for it to the mainland, head to Dakar.
00:33:45
Ken Davies
Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. Fair enough.
00:33:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the nearest location.
00:33:50
Ken Davies
You won't make it, you can head that way.
00:33:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Give it a go. Give it a go. ah Right, number two. Following on from last week's theme, and you got this one you got this one right, mate, so I'm hoping for great things.
00:33:54
Ken Davies
None out of one.
00:34:00
Ken Davies
Not out of the flight.
00:34:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
What is the national animal of Cape Verde?
00:34:03
Ken Davies
Well, it's the national anim animal Cape Verde.
00:34:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah. What's the national animal of Cape Verde?
00:34:15
Ken Davies
Well, Cape Verde is, um imagine it's a fairly pristine jungle kind of area.
00:34:25
Ken Davies
I don't think it's going to be a bird. It's going to be something that lives in the jungle. So it's going to some kind of monkey, I think. Or is it something like that?
00:34:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do
00:34:38
Ken Davies
Maybe it could be a bird. I'm going to go for ah the eagle, the Cape Verdean eagle.
00:34:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
you want to... Okay, fine. I was going to say, do you want a clue? It's not that, by the way. There are three kind of... There's lots and lots of...
00:34:52
Ken Davies
Rodent, it's kind type of rodent, isn't it?
00:34:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
one
00:34:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I'm going to give you i'm goingnna give you a clue. I'm going to give you, is it is it the Cape Verde Warbler? Is it the Loggerhead Turtle? Or is it the Manatee?
00:35:07
Ken Davies
Oh, a manatee, yeah. I think a loggerhead turtle sounds like, ah you know, that sounds like a good shout, actually. Yeah, I'd say a loggerhead turtle.
00:35:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, well done, mate. Well done. You managed to get that question wrong twice. So, it's a Manatee.
00:35:24
Ken Davies
Oh, wow.
00:35:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
malatee Manatee, manatee, manatee.
00:35:26
Ken Davies
man Manatee, manatee.
00:35:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:35:27
Ken Davies
They're the white things. They're like...
00:35:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, the one of they're called a a sea horse, a sea cow rather, sea cow or sea pig. they They're big kind of whale-likey.
00:35:36
Ken Davies
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
They look really cute.
00:35:37
Ken Davies
Yeah, yeah i know I know what you mean. I didn't know that was the that was where they hung out, but now I do.
00:35:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, loads of them around there. ah the goat You'll see them if you go to the pubs and clubs at night time.
00:35:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
the Mate, you've probably pulled a few manatees in your time.
00:35:56
Ken Davies
no Not going there. Just refuse. Point blank. to go Let's go to question number three, please. See if I can make it a full house of erroneousness.
00:36:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
you should get it You should get this. This is the easiest of the three. What currency does Cape Verde use?
00:36:16
Ken Davies
Well, I reckon...
00:36:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cape
00:36:19
Ken Davies
And now it's going to be a mistake. Because used to be part of Portugal. Portugal now is the euro. The old Portugal currency was the Escudo. ah So I think there's got to be a great chance that Cape Verde is still using the Escudo.
00:36:34
Ken Davies
So going to say the Escudo.
00:36:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
So how did you get on at home with Kenny's quiz this week? sherlock po the introduction that to be right
00:36:43
Ken Davies
That was impressive, wasn't it?
00:36:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah also yeah ah thought yeah i thought we and and ah stop happy now thank you ah yeah i thought you get that right and but only if you kind of stopped and thought about it for a moment and you did exactly that
00:36:56
Ken Davies
I stopped and thought about it.
00:36:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
to do
00:36:57
Ken Davies
bit logic was applied.
00:36:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
so how did you get on at home with kenny's quiz this week Hmm, not bad. One out of three for you, Ken. Hmm.
00:37:07
Ken Davies
Yeah, it could have been better, couldn't it? But come on. I mean, they were hard questions.
00:37:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Were they...
00:37:10
Ken Davies
I've just got to start doing some homework, haven't I?
00:37:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah i think the thing is this. It takes me about 20 seconds to put Kenny's quiz together because I spend so much time researching all of this that the questions just sort of pop out whilst I'm doing my research.
00:37:23
Ken Davies
Hmm.
00:37:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
But they're never that in-depth, are they?
00:37:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not like... yeah
00:37:26
Ken Davies
No, but I reckon if I chat GPT, 10 things to know about Verde, it would spoil it, wouldn't it?
00:37:32
Ken Davies
So I don't.
00:37:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, I think you're right. I think you're right. No, no. it's more It's more fun if you don't cheat. Yeah, I'll give that. Right, before we move on to having a look at the manager, are you going to have a word from one of our sponsors, please?
00:37:44
Ken Davies
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00:38:01
Ken Davies
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00:38:20
Ken Davies
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00:38:22
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for example One of the things I was going to ask you in Kenny's quiz was what is the official language of Cape Verde?
00:38:23
Ken Davies
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00:38:32
Ken Davies
Well, it would be, would imagine, either Verdean,
00:38:34
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No.
00:38:36
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my from
00:38:38
Ken Davies
Or Portuguese, obviously. Portuguese.
00:38:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I should have asked that one, and I should have shucked that one instead of the instead of the currency one, and you would have ended up with an absolute blank. No, the answer is ah ah Cape Verdean Creole.
00:38:52
Ken Davies
Creole. Yeah, I did say Verdane.
00:38:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but that's not it, isn't it?
00:38:56
Ken Davies
Oh, it is. Creole is just a term for generally used language by indigenous peoples. I would have claimed that. And if I reckon if we'd gone to the Court of Sports Arbitration, I would have won
00:39:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Okay, fine. All right, well, I'll give you i don't want to, you know, I don't think we should have caught over.
00:39:12
Ken Davies
won. Great. Two out of four then.
00:39:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it doesn't count that much. No, no, no, it doesn't count. No, the code is over. That was just one to throw in.
Cape Verde's Coach & World Cup Prospects
00:39:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah So, yeah, the reason why I asked that question is because the Cape Verdean coach is a gentleman known by as Boobista, as you said a little bit earlier. Boobista.
00:39:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Whoa, Boobista. Whoa, he comes from Cape Verde. and I don't know. what We need to think of a song. What's the last what's the last line to that?
00:39:42
Ken Davies
but beta be beastie he comes
00:39:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:39:45
Ken Davies
verde He rides to each game on the back of a manatee.
00:39:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, brilliant. Boobie stir. Boobie stir. were He comes from Cape Verde. He arrives on a manatee.
00:39:58
Ken Davies
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it. That's his song.
00:40:00
Ken Davies
Brilliant.
00:40:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's his song, which is easier to rhyme with than his real name, which is Pedro Leiteo Brito, born in 1970.
00:40:01
Ken Davies
Yeah.
00:40:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
So he's a bit younger than you can. He is Cape Verdean football manager.
00:40:12
Ken Davies
Yeah.
00:40:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Former footballer, played as a centre-half, not with any great distinction, but played football nonetheless, which is more than you and I have done, so fair play to him.
00:40:21
Ken Davies
true
00:40:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, his nickname, the reason I but so started this conversation a long time ago, his and nickname comes from the Creole form of a Boa Vista, which is where he was born. So that's where his nickname That's why he's called.
00:40:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Everybody's going, why is he called Boa Vista? Well, it comes from the fact he's from Boa Vista, and the Creole of Boa Vista is Boa Vista.
00:40:38
Ken Davies
yeah
00:40:41
Ken Davies
And Boviste in Boviste in Brazil?
00:40:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Oh, sorry, no, in Cape Verde. He's never, from everything I can see, he's never actually left the shores of Cape Verde.
00:40:52
Ken Davies
like Robinson Crusoe.
00:40:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
we Yes, I think so, yeah. i forget Problem is, he'll never, he'll stand there, he won't be able to get on a plane to America next year, because he's never, he won't know what to do.
00:40:59
Ken Davies
No. He's making a raft at the moment. Yeah.
00:41:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Imagine, imagine him.
00:41:05
Ken Davies
Aw. He hasn't got passport. Imagine if he gets there and they say, where's your passport? say, what?
00:41:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
What, yeah, yeah.
00:41:10
Ken Davies
Where's my what? Wow.
00:41:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I'm sure he has left Cape Verde, but, you know.
00:41:16
Ken Davies
Yeah. Well, it has to, doesn't it? It has to go to the other games.
00:41:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I think so. So, yeah, he's been in and around the national team as a coach as far back as 2007 when he went into coaching and he was an assistant manager. Then he did some club stuff in Cape Verde, by the way.
00:41:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then back as an assistant manager, there's some more club stuff in Cape Verde. And then finally came back in 2020 to take the full-time manager's job. So he's been manager since 2005. He's obviously led them to qualification ah this time round. He's had a couple of reasonable efforts in the African Cup of Nations, 2023 being the most notable where they got to the quarterfinals.
00:41:55
Ken Davies
Do you think if he has a great World Cup, do you think, you know, Man United are going to come knocking and say, look, yeah, there's a...
00:42:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:42:02
Ken Davies
It's not happening, is it?
00:42:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Undoubtedly. But he's going to have to have a great World Cup.
00:42:05
Ken Davies
Hmm. Yeah, we might do.
00:42:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
But mind you, should we give it one more go?
00:42:12
Ken Davies
What?
00:42:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Boobie stir, boobie stir, boobie stir, boobie stir.
00:42:14
Ken Davies
Oh.
00:42:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
He comes from Cape Verde. He arrives on a manatee. It's a great song.
00:42:22
Ken Davies
Right.
00:42:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's singing it.
00:42:23
Ken Davies
It's great. Yeah.
00:42:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll tell you what. take Right, Ken, how ah to finish the podcast. Excuse me, to finish the podcast, how are Cape Verde going to get on in the World Cup next year?
00:42:36
Ken Davies
You know what?
00:42:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't say it.
00:42:39
Ken Davies
Badly. ah I think, I mean, they are going to go out in the group stages, but I so want them not to. ah so and I'm really going to be, I'm going to be sitting up watching cape the Cape Verde games.
00:42:50
Ken Davies
I want Liveramento, this the centre forward, to smash Atrix in every game. So I'm right behind them, but it's just impossible to see anything.
00:43:01
Ken Davies
But if you've been playing Malaysia and Madagascar and
00:43:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
If he's been fighting
00:43:05
Ken Davies
Eswatini, and then you suddenly come up against Argentina. ah You're not winning that, are you? So, no, I'm afraid going over the group stages, I suspect ah suspect they'll lose every game.
00:43:18
Ken Davies
The best they can hope for is they may score a goal, and we'll all celebrate that fact.
00:43:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think the best they could hope for is is a draw. I think in one of the three games, can they get a draw? I mean, it is dependent on on getting Wales in your group or something like
00:43:35
Ken Davies
yeah So the Manatees versus the Wales, that's going to be an amazing game. You imagine?
00:43:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think they'll be all at tea watching that. and So, thank you very much. Hang on, wait minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:43:48
Ken Davies
Stop it.
00:43:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
was worth bit ah Yeah, they've got to they've got to they've got to be pitched in with a really poor team as well in the group and hope to get a point. You're right. and Maybe it's just, can they score a goal? But I think they've got more chance of getting nil-nil out of somebody than scoring a goal. Because you know what group stages are like, particularly the opening games of group stages?
00:44:08
Ken Davies
Against England.
00:44:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
really, really key against England. Yeah, exactly. They're just cagey affairs. Nobody wants to lose. They're very happy. at gene Teams are generally happy with nil-nil in the opening games of these group stages of the World Cups.
00:44:19
Ken Davies
Not against Cape Verde, Nick.
00:44:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
So,
00:44:20
Ken Davies
um the Weirdly, i can see Cape Verde getting drawn against England.
00:44:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you reckon
00:44:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
that would be terrible?
00:44:26
Ken Davies
It's got that feel about it.
00:44:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
It would just be like one nell or something, wouldn't it? It would just be terrible.
00:44:29
Ken Davies
Yeah, will. It will.
00:44:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:44:30
Ken Davies
It will.
00:44:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:44:33
Ken Davies
to Cape Verde. So, no yeah, i think that the I think they're going on fairly early, I'm afraid.
00:44:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah
00:44:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, I think so. sad to say. I can't disagree with any of that. I think, listen, lads, you've done brilliant brilliantly, brilliantly to get there. Many, many, many congratulations. Enjoy your time in America.
00:44:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go on a holiday afterwards for a few weeks and just take it for what it is and hopefully grab a point somewhere. But that's all you're going to get So out in the group stages. So, Kent, that's Cape Verde.
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00:45:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's Cape Verde.
00:45:01
Ken Davies
That was good. Enjoyed that. That was thoroughly enjoyable.
00:45:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was. And I've got a new song to take away with me for the terraces. I might try it out at the next Derby home game, so see how it goes on.
00:45:09
Ken Davies
Yes. Well, I'll look forward to that. I'll look forward to seeing you being escorted from the premises.
00:45:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
um where are we going Where are we going next week?
00:45:19
Ken Davies
We are going next time to Saudi Arabia.
00:45:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:45:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you
00:45:27
Ken Davies
By the way, i just should add that the last three teams that we've reviewed, Tunisia, Algeria and Cape Verde, we've had them all going out in the group stages. And next time it's Saudi Arabia.
00:45:40
Ken Davies
What?
00:45:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
know why? do you know why? Because they've all got which exactly the same sounding national anthem.
00:45:46
Ken Davies
I bet Saudi Arabia doesn't.
00:45:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, bet Saudi Arabia doesn't, but the three African ones, it's all pretty similar.
00:45:50
Ken Davies
Yeah, they did sound very similar, a bit dirty.
00:45:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:45:52
Ken Davies
Anyway, let's look forward to it. Saudi Arabia next week.
00:45:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
how you right Okay, good. Well, until then, Ken, thank you very much indeed. As always, have a great week, whatever you're up to. Look after yourselves, look after each other. Goodbye.
00:46:03
Ken Davies
Bye-bye.