{"id":822241,"date":"2026-07-25T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:15:10","slug":"football-soccer-cape-verde-world-cup-hero-vozinha-agrees-move-to-chiles-colo-colo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822241\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Cape Verde World Cup hero Vozinha agrees move to Chile&#8217;s Colo Colo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Cape \u2060Verde goalkeeper Vozinha, who emerged as one of \u2060the World Cup&#8217;s biggest surprise packages, has \u200creached an agreement to join Chilean side Colo Colo, club president Anibal Mosa said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old free agent will travel \u200bto Chile to undergo a medical \u2060before being officially unveiled \u2060at the Estadio Monumental, Mosa told reporters ahead of \u2060Colo \u200cColo&#8217;s league match against Deportes Limache.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vozinha will be a Colo Colo player. In the \u2060coming days he will travel to Chile, undergo \u200bthe usual \u200cmedical examinations and then be presented here at \u2060the Estadio \u200bMonumental,&#8221; Mosa said.<\/p>\n<p>Mosa added Vozinha&#8217;s World Cup performances showed he deserved the move, while acknowledging the signing also \u2060carried marketing appeal for the Chilean \u200bside.<\/p>\n<p>Although the deal has yet to be finalised, Colo Colo teased the signing on social media with an \u2060image appearing to show the veteran goalkeeper&#8217;s trademark curly hair.<\/p>\n<p>Vozinha, who left Portuguese second-tier side Chaves before the World Cup, was voted into FIFA&#8217;s fan-selected World \u200bCup dream team after helping tournament \u2060debutants Cape Verde hold eventual champions Spain to a \u200bgoalless draw and pushing eventual \u200crunners-up Argentina into extra time \u200bin the last 32.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Janina Nuno Rios in Mexico City; Editing by Kim Coghill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Cape \u2060Verde goalkeeper Vozinha, who emerged as one of \u2060the World Cup&#8217;s biggest surprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,13201,596,85,21418],"class_list":["post-822241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}