{"id":210928,"date":"2025-10-13T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210928\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:03:08","slug":"cape-verde-qualify-for-the-world-cup-island-nation-off-the-coast-of-africa-becomes-the-second-smallest-country-to-reach-global-showpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210928\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Verde qualify for the World Cup: Island nation off the coast of Africa becomes the second smallest country to reach global showpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Cape Verde have officially qualified for the 2026 World Cup, becoming the second-smallest nation ever to punch their ticket into the iconic quadrennial tournament. The African nation, which has a population of just 524,000, beat Eswatini 3-0 on Monday to seal their progression to the finals next summer, which will be held across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Verde have officially qualified for the 2026 World Cup, becoming the second-smallest nation ever to punch their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,102618,102621,102619,561,82,13009,102620],"class_list":["post-210928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cape-verde","tag-cape-verde-vs-eswatini","tag-eswatini","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-qualification-caf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}