{"id":823883,"date":"2026-07-25T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823883\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:58:10","slug":"vozinha-cape-verde-goalkeeper-to-join-chilean-club-colo-colo-after-2026-world-cup-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823883\/","title":{"rendered":"Vozinha: Cape Verde goalkeeper to join Chilean club Colo Colo after 2026 World Cup heroics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vozinha, the Cape Verde goalkeeper who earned plaudits for his World Cup performances, is set to join Chilean side Colo Colo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 40-year-old headed to the World Cup without a club after his contract with Portuguese second division side Chaves expired, but he became an overnight sensation by starring in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cr7xnk3eygxt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">goalless draw against eventual champions Spain.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has now found a new club, according to Colo Colo president Anibal Mosa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Vozinha will be a Colo Colo player,&#8221; said Mosa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the coming days he will travel to Chile, undergo the usual medical examinations and then be presented here at the Estadio Monumental.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mosa said Vozinha&#8217;s World Cup displays showed he deserved the move, acknowledging the signing also carried marketing appeal for Colo Colo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club, based in the Chilean capital of Santiago, sit top of Liga de Primera &#8211; the country&#8217;s top division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vozinha, the Cape Verde goalkeeper who earned plaudits for his World Cup performances, is set to join Chilean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-823883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823883","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=823883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}