Cabo Verde walked into Miami Gardens as the smallest nation ever to reach a men's World Cup and walked out having frustrated one of the sport's grand old names for the second match running. Their 2-2 draw with Uruguay at Hard Rock Stadium on June 21, billed by FIFA as a Group H fixture, followed the scoreless stalemate they earned against European champions Spain six days earlier.
The islanders struck first and did so in style. Twenty-one minutes in, Kevin Pina lined up a free kick from beyond 30 yards, found the gap at the edge of the wall and buried it low into the corner — the first World Cup goal in his country's history according to FIFA. Marcelo Bielsa's Uruguay needed most of the half to recover, but recover they did: Maximiliano Araújo levelled in the 44th minute, and deep into first-half stoppage time Agustín Canobbio turned the contest around from close range.
