Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha is an unlikely World Cup star. The 40-year old, currently without a club, has spent two decades flitting around the lower reaches of professional football, including teams in Slovakia, Moldova and Angola.
But since his heroics earned him player of the match in Cape Verde’s 0-0 draw against Spain, the bookmakers’ favourites to lift the World Cup next month, he has become a global sensation. His Instagram account shot from roughly 50,000 followers before the game to more than 14mn.
Afterwards, a tearful Vozinha lamented that his mother could not afford a US visa to be at the match, although the US state department said on Thursday she had been granted one to see the team’s second game in Miami on Sunday.
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