{"id":34955,"date":"2026-06-22T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/world-cup-daily-cape-verde-stun-again-yamal-shines-for-spain\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:43:39","slug":"world-cup-daily-cape-verde-stun-again-yamal-shines-for-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/world-cup-daily-cape-verde-stun-again-yamal-shines-for-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Daily: Cape Verde stun again, Yamal shines for Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Jun 21, 2026, 11:11 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Another day of 2026 <a data-league-guid=\"34f478c4-cf9a-35da-abd5-33db021e09d2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/worldcup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> action is in the books, and there were some talking points.<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"99314f68-1c92-218b-b02b-67c50ff9bc3a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a> bounced back from their shocking goalless draw with <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d4df09fe-4066-fc4a-ab3d-03e0e19653f3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=2597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cape Verde<\/a> by romping past <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a0bc2139-6270-6732-54a7-a49929b07c85\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/match\/_\/gameId\/760453\/saudi-arabia-spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4-0<\/a> before <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4084f797-3877-2af0-b70f-570d25a1a141\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Belgium<\/a> battled <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bf49dbeb-e7e8-b8f1-27e8-ae3c730ac278\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran<\/a> to a nervy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/match\/_\/gameId\/760451\/iran-belgium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0-0<\/a> draw after going down to 10 players for the final half hour.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the Cape Verdeans&#8217; second-ever World Cup match was against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"881562ef-95fb-355a-edd7-7e40e04b51c2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uruguay<\/a>, and they got another point in the group stage as they drew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/match\/_\/gameId\/760450\/cape-verde-uruguay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2-2<\/a> in Miami. <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bbce1717-aef1-fa94-c502-16a059f85d81\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=2666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Zealand<\/a> jumped out to a one-goal lead before <a data-player-guid=\"49438d5e-de32-9f1b-9aab-5f6ae53f14d0\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/173896\/mohamed-salah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohamed Salah<\/a> inspired <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"1326a2f9-1a26-1d6d-67b2-bb34d1c726ce\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=2620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Egypt<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/match\/_\/gameId\/760452\/egypt-new-zealand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3-1<\/a> win in Sunday&#8217;s late game.<\/p>\n<p>Relive all the features, news, video analysis and color from around the competition.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module-iframe-wrapper \">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"arena-liveblog-iframe-DAw0Jf5\" height=\"2000\" width=\"100%\" class=\"frame iframe-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/embed?publisher=espn-69077&amp;event=DAw0Jf5&amp;v=2&amp;theme=light\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"false\" mozallowfullscreen=\"false\" and=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" seemless=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 21, 2026, 11:11 PM ET Another day of 2026 FIFA World Cup action is in the books, and there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0622%2Fr1677377_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}