🦈 🇨🇻 THE GREATEST UNDERDOGS IN WORLD CUP HISTORY? {CAPE VERDE 🇨🇻} 🏆 ✍️

Football For Kids

FOR KIDS IEM

Kids & Family, Sports, Soccer

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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This show is sponsored by Kellogg’s Football Camps - a brilliant solution for families looking to keep kids active, having fun, and building confidence this summer. Want to listen AD FREE? ⬇️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠>>> https://www.patreon.com/c/Footballforkids⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ <<< Cameo: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.cameo.com/footballforkids?srsltid=AfmBOor8HuiLARk8bmYDzgsPuvdcp3F1UWdT5vtHhSzsjxm-hMEADJTQ⁠⁠ ------------------- In this special Football For Kids episode, we tell the incredible World Cup story of Cape Verde, also known as the Blue Sharks, through a rhyming poem for children and families. From a tiny island nation with giant courage, to unforgettable matches against Spain, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and Argentina, this is a football story packed with goals, saves, shocks and one of the great underdog journeys of the tournament. Hear about Vozinha, the 40-year-old goalkeeper with lightning gloves, Cape Verde’s historic run to the knockout stages, and the dramatic battle with Lionel Messi and Argentina. A brilliant football podcast episode for kids who love the World Cup, football history, inspiring underdog stories, amazing goalkeepers and unforgettable moments from the beautiful game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can listen to Football for Kids completely head free by signing up on Patreon or on Apple podcast subscription.
0:07.6	Hello grownups.
0:08.6	Are you already starting to think about the summer holidays and how to keep the kids busy?
0:14.2	Yeah, I thought you might.
0:16.4	Today's podcast is brought to you by Kellogg's Football Camps, a brilliant solution for families
0:22.7	looking to keep kids active, having fun and building confidence this summer.
0:28.6	With camps for girls and boys aged 5 to 15, Kellogg's are offering over 39,000 free places
0:37.3	at sessions hosted by over 70 pro football clubs across the UK.
0:43.7	From Colchester to Cardiff, Glasgow to London.
0:47.5	It's a great chance for kids to get out, to play football and make new friends over the summer break.
0:54.8	To book a free place just buy a promotional Kellogg's Football Camps pack
0:59.4	and scan the QR code to choose a club near you.
1:03.6	Tees and Cs apply, subject to availability.
1:08.3	Hello, football for kids, listeners.
1:15.6	Oh my goodness, have we just witnessed the greatest underdogs in World Cup history in Cape Verde? I think we may have. Wow, what a journey,
1:24.9	what a World Cup, what a story. As you can probably already tell, the music's different in this episode.
1:33.3	But I just felt like this one needed something a little different, a little bit more special, something which stands out among the others.
1:42.4	Because that is exactly what Cape Verde have done in the
1:46.7	2006 FIFA World Cup.
1:55.7	Now gather around listeners, pull up a chair. I have a tail full of thunder of boots and wild hair.
2:02.4	Of a team from the ocean, 10 islands so bright, who gave giant footballers a terrible
2:07.8	fright. From Cape Verde, far out in the sea, where the waves do a dance and the palm trees go
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