Cape Verde national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Tubarões Azuis (Blue Sharks), Crioulos (Creoles) |
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| Association | Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol |
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| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach |  João de Deus |
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| Most caps | Bubista | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Estádio da Várzea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | CPV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 107 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 68 (July 2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 182 (April 2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 131 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Guinea-Bissau 3 - 0 Cape Verde  (Guinea-Bissau; January 7, 1979) |
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| Biggest win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cape Verde 3 - 0 Guinea-Bissau (Mali; February 2, 1981)  Cape Verde 3 - 0 Mauritania  (Praia, Cape Verde; June 21, 2003) Cape Verde 3 - 0 Swaziland  (Praia, Cape Verde; November 16, 2003) |
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| Biggest defeat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Senegal 5 - 1 Cape Verde (Mali; February 12, 1981) Cape Verde 0 - 4 Ghana  (Praia, Cape Verde; October 8, 2005) |
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The Cape Verde national football team, nicknamed either Tubarões Azuis (Blue Sharks) or Crioulos (Creoles), is the national team of Cape Verde and is controlled by the Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol. It has never made the World Cup or the African Nations Cup. The team almost qualified for the African Nations Cup in 2006, at one time lying second in their qualifying group behind South Africa
For the first time, on November 2, 2002, it faced a non-African team, Luxembourg, in a friendly, resulting in a scoreless draw.
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[edit] Cape Verde Football Achievements
- Amilcar Cabral Cup :
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- 1 Time Champion (2000)
- 2 Times Runners-up
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[edit] World Cup record
[edit] African Nations Cup record
- 1957 to 1992 - Did not enter
- 1994 - Did not qualify
- 1996 - Withdrew
- 1998 - Did not enter
- 2000 to 2008 - Did not qualify
[edit] Players
[edit] Past Players
[edit] Current Squad
Squad against Luxembourg and Cameroon in May 2008 and Tanzania in June 2008.
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[edit] Last and next games
- Next game: Cape Verde – Tanzania
- Praia, Cape Verde - 7 June 2008. (FIFA World Cup 2010)
[edit] External links
- Cape Verde FA official site (this site is currently out of order)
- Cape Verde at FIFA's home page
- RSSSF archive of results 1979-
- The first website dedicated to the national football team of Cape Verde, currently under reconstruction due to reopen later this month
- National Football Teams - Cape Verde
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