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We were two fingertips away from the greatest upset in the history of the World Cup.Sit with that for a moment. Cape Verde, ten specks of volcanic rock in the Atlantic with fewer people than Tuscon, took the world champions, the No. 1 ranked team on the planet, the winners of the last World Cup, to the 111th minute of a knockout game. They equalized once in regulation. Then they equalized AGAIN in extra time with a world-class curler into the top corner that turned Miami into a madhouse and had the entire planet screaming at its television. Argentina survived on a set piece with nine minutes of extra time left. Survived is the only word that fits. Argentina nearly became victims of the greatest World Cup knockout upset of all time. Here are my five takeaways from the craziest game of this tournament: 1. Argentina Advance. Nobody Says, “Comfortably.” Lionel Scaloni’s side are in the round of 16, and they earned every inch of it. But let’s be honest about what we watched. Argentina had 64 percent of the ball and spent long stretches passing it sideways with the urgency of a Sunday picnic. When Deroy Duarte equalized in the 59th minute from a tight angle, it was deserved. Argentina had gone sleepy, sloppy, and predictable. The bigger issue: it can’t just be Lionel Messi. Lautaro Martínez was once again anonymous. The midfield of Rodrigo De Paul, Enzo Fernández and Alexis Mac Allister controlled tempo but created precious little between the lines. Against Egypt in the round of 16, and whoever comes after, the champions will need someone other than a 39-year-old to conjure the magic. Tonight, when they absolutely had to have a goal, guess whose delivery produced it. The GOAT, of course. 2. David’s Sling Was On Point. He Nearly Took Goliath’s Head Off. Read this slowly: a country of roughly 500,000 people stood eye to eye with the world champions for 120 minutes and never once blinked. Cape Verde didn’t park the bus and pray. They traded punches with Argentina in a World Cup knockout game. Deroy Duarte’s equalizer was a striker’s finish from a tough angle. Then, after Lisandro Martínez thumped Argentina back ahead in extra time, Sidny Lopes Cabral hit the shot of the tournament, a curling missile into the top corner in the 103rd minute. For eight delirious minutes, the impossible was winning. 2-2. Against Argentina. In the knockouts. They even forced Emiliano Martínez into a flying save on another Lopes Cabral free kick to stay alive. The stone left the sling and grazed the giant’s temple. History will remember how close they came. 3. Messi Rewrites the Book Every Time He Steps On Grass. At this point, Lionel Messi is rewriting the history books every time he steps onto the field. His 29th-minute opener — a gorgeous first touch off Lisandro Martínez’s long ball and a dink over Vozinha —was his 20th World Cup goal. He’s now scored in eight consecutive World Cup games, another record, a run stretching back to 2022. And because the man is incapable of a quiet night, it was his set-piece delivery in the 111th minute that produced the winner, Cristian Romero rising highest to nod Argentina through. He now leads the Golden Boot race with seven goals, one clear of Kylian Mbappé, in his sixth World Cup, at 39 years old. All alone at the top. The GOAT keeps grazing, and the rest of football watches in disbelief. 4. Thank You for the Memories, Cape Verde. This team gave the World Cup its soul, and the cast belongs in Hollywood. Vozinha, a 40-year-old goalkeeper playing in Portugal’s second division, arrived at this tournament with 31,000 Instagram followers. He leaves with 17 million followers and a highlight reel for the ages, including eight more saves tonight — one a scrambling, post-to-post rejection of a Messi free kick that showed incredible awareness. Then there’s Roberto “Pico” Lopes, the center back who was working at a Dublin bank when Cape Verde recruited him through a LinkedIn message he ignored for nine months because he assumed it was spam. Tonight, the greatest success story in LinkedIn history spent 120 minutes marking the greatest player who ever lived. And barely gave him a yard.You cannot write this stuff. Except Cape Verde just did. 5. This Is Exactly Why the 48-Team World Cup Exists Be honest. When the field expanded to 48, you wondered how much the quality would suffer. Filler teams, watered-down soup. Cape Verde was supposed to be exactly that, a name to make up the numbers, three games and a polite wave goodbye. Some stories for the grandchildren in forty years. Instead, they held Spain scoreless. They traded blows with Uruguay and finished ahead of a two-time world champion. And tonight they took the best team on earth to the brink of the greatest upset the World Cup has ever seen. Two equalizers. 120 minutes. A fingertip from immortality.An island nation smaller than Kansas City, Missouri, just authored one of the great Cinderella stories in the history of this sport. Ten islands in the Atlantic are crying tears of pride tonight, and the rest of us should be applauding. The Blue Sharks belonged. Every single minute. Sincerely, from all of us — thank you.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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MAGA-friendly Abelardo de la Espriella’s decision to make Colombia’s national soccer jersey a defining feature of his victorious right-wing presidential campaign has sparked a debate over the political ownership of national symbols.
While the yellow shirt has long been associated with moments of collective celebration, critics argue that its prominent use by a partisan candidate risks recasting it as a marker of political identity. A Bogotá judge even banned de la Espriella from wearing the jersey while campaigning before the June 21 vote.
After hearing from fans in Miami on Saturday night vociferously in support of de la Espriella and his unflinching law-and-order policies, POLITICO spoke to two experts on Colombian politics who say the episode reflects a broader pattern seen in populist movements, where patriotic imagery is deployed to blur the line between support for the nation and support for a political project.
“In my view, he was very deliberately politicizing the national team’s shirt,” Eduardo Gamarra, professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University, said. “The Colombian jersey is one of the few symbols that can still claim to belong to all Colombians, across region, class and ideology. That is precisely why it is attractive to a populist campaign: it allows a partisan political project to present itself as the nation itself.”
“This is not unique to Colombia. Populist politicians around the world routinely try to appropriate national symbols. In the United States, MAGA politics has turned the American flag and other patriotic symbols into markers of partisan identity. In Venezuela, Chavismo also understood the power of national colors, patriotic imagery and sporting symbols such as the Vinotinto [the national team],” Gamarra added. “De la Espriella’s use of the shirt was effective because it transformed the emotion around the national team into a signal of political belonging.”
“But to me the real surprise is not that de la Espriella tried to use the jersey, or even that it worked. The surprise is how ineffective opposition groups were in defending the shirt as a shared national symbol. They allowed a symbol that should belong to the whole country to be claimed by one political camp,” Gamarra said.
The jersey’s appeal, however, went beyond nationalism — helping to reinforce de la Espriella’s carefully crafted populist image ahead of the election final round that he won in mid-June.
“Abelardo de la Espriella used the national team’s shirt, traditionally a symbol of unity and celebration throughout the country, especially at the time of the World Cup, to associate his campaign with strong patriotism,” said Julian Gerez, assistant professor of criminology, law and society and political science at the University of California, Irvine. “But I think more importantly, it’s about de la Espriella’s own image: he is a multimillionaire lawyer but it is essential to his brand to appear as a man of the people. And as opposed to wearing a suit jacket or other formal attire, which is what might be expected, the jersey and hat play an important role in the way he portrays his image.”
“Ultimately, I think it was an effective tactic, but [leftist candidate] Ivan Cepeda’s campaign ironically made it more effective by coming out against its use, which led to greater awareness of the jersey as linked to de la Espriella’s campaign — and stronger defiance among his supporters in wearing the jersey,” Gerez added.
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Lindblad Expeditions’ National Geographic Sea Bird has twice stopped in Haines this year while carrying an active norovirus outbreak.
The boat’s most recent outbreak affected 20 of the 95 people aboard the ship. During that outbreak, the ship docked in Haines for 8 hours on June 23. The company did not immediately return a request for more information on Friday.
Norovirus is a highly contagious virus that is the leading cause of vomiting, diarrhea and foodborne illness in the United States. It is the most common virus reported on cruise ships, including 17 of the 23 outbreaks reported in 2025.
During a previous outbreak, the ship stopped in Haines on May 28 while twelve passengers were infected. That’s according to Centers for Disease Control reports about the outbreaks, which the agency released earlier this week. The CDC’s reporting threshold for outbreaks is 3% of the people on board.
Separately, 125 of the 4,176 people aboard the Ruby Princess cruise ship that traveled from San Francisco to Alaska from June 12 to July 2 were infected with norovirus. The Ruby Princess next sailing will see it visiting Haines for the first time this season on July 6. The ship arrived in its homeport of San Francisco on Thursday, but new passengers were delayed in getting on board as the company was disinfecting the boat, according to CruiseHive.
The CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program monitored the Ruby Princess outbreak from afar, but sent investigators aboard the Sea Bird after its second outbreak, according to CruiseHive.
Cruise Line Agencies of Alaska port manager Leslie Ross said Friday she has notified borough tourism director Rebecca Hylton and the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Clinic of the Ruby Princess’ coming arrival and recent outbreak.
Ross said she was also aware of the outbreaks on the Sea Bird, which has been visiting Haines since mid-May. That ship moors at the Chilkoot Indian Association dock when it’s in town.
“They don’t have a medical [team] on board and they’re not a foreign-flagged ship so I don’t have as much interface with them,” Ross said.
Tourism director Hylton said the borough doesn’t generally get notifications about active outbreaks on ships like the Sea Bird, though the tour operators should.
Hylton said it’s standard practice for cruise lines to notify tour operators of disease outbreaks but not for ports and the general public. Port Community of Alaska, a professional organization based in Juneau focused on collaboration between cities impacted by cruise ship activities, is advocating for a standard protocol for all ports, she said.
Ross said cruise ships are not supposed to let infected passengers on a ship come to shore, but she’s unclear on the legality of restricting a person’s movement to the ship. She also said she wasn’t sure what the specific requirements were for ships to notify ports when they’re coming in with passengers that are infected with a contagious disease.
Ross said generally Haines’ tourism department would notify the community if there was anything to be concerned about, but that cruise operators should take precautions regardless.
“Wash your hands, wipe down everything after they get off. Don’t shake hands. Don’t share an ice cream cone with anyone,” she said.
When a ship does stop in Haines mid-outbreak of anything like the flu or norovirus, Ross said she asks them not to send any passengers who are sick to the local clinic.
“We’re a small town without a lot of resources to deal with that,” she said.
The Juneau Independent’s Mark Sabbatini contributed reporting to this story.
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This week, members of the European Parliament issued two sharp rebukes of FIFA over its decision to allow Russians to participate in the U-15 World Cup in October and President Gianni Infantino’s relationship with U.S. leader Donald Trump.
In letters published Monday and Wednesday, 90 MEPs pressed FIFA over actions they said undermine the world football governing body’s political neutrality.
POLITICO sat down with the author of Wednesday’s letter, Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius from the liberal Renew group, to discuss how the European Parliament is taking a stand against FIFA.
FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Auštrevičius’ criticism.
The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Tell us why you wrote that letter condemning FIFA for allowing Russia to return to the U-15 World Cup.
The letter came as a reaction to FIFA’s decision to open up the gates for the Russian U-15 team for the World Cup in October. To my mind, it’s completely based on moral and political blindness. This period of time is absolutely wrong to send this kind of sport-based but politics-based signal to Russia. Imagine some national teams refusing to play against Russians will face disqualification, which is completely wrong and it will lead to unfair sport competitions. It’s not the first time FIFA disappoints sport supporters and the wider public in this regard.
Infantino said earlier this year that he opposes these kinds of bans, like the one that’s been in place for Russia, because they “create more hatred.” How do you respond?
I can imagine the Russian U-15 team is on the field, and there will be a lot of sports viewers and participants in that stadium. I don’t reject [the possibility of them protesting against] Russian players. I’m sorry for the Russian U-15 national team, but that’s absolutely understandable for me, the public reaction toward their country’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Is the relationship between Infantino and Trump a cause for concern?
It’s a demonstration of political affiliations. FIFA is not any longer a neutral sports organization, I am sorry to say. As long as they play those appeasing games with high politicians around the world, it’s simply a disadvantage of FIFA rather than a strong point. We have to be concerned if that sport becomes rather political.
Lithuania is not in the World Cup, so who are you supporting?
Well, I’ve been supporting [the] Europeans. I’ve been a strong supporter of Germany — whew, disappointed. Disappointed.
But now I keep an eye on Spain.
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