Metropole · Sport
—The moment. Cabo Verde, playing its first ever World Cup match, held Spain to a goalless draw in Atlanta on June fifteenth.
—The man. The hero was a forty-year-old goalkeeper nicknamed Vozinha, who made seven saves and became the oldest player ever to debut in a country’s first World Cup game.
—The explosion. His following jumped from about fifty thousand to roughly ten million in under a day, more than basketball and American football superstars command.
—The scale. Cabo Verde is home to only about half a million people, so his audience is now roughly nineteen times the size of his whole country.
