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國際時事跟讀 Ep. L228: Tiny Nation Stuns Mighty Spain

Highlights 主題摘要

• Cape Verde, a nation of just 525,000, held mighty Spain to a goalless World Cup draw despite facing 27 shots.
• The hero was Vozinha, a 40-year-old journeyman goalkeeper whose seven saves won him man of the match.
• Days later, he and Uruguay's 40-year-old Muslera made history as the World Cup's first pair of veteran keepers.

When Cape Verde walked out in Atlanta on June 15 for their first-ever World Cup match, almost no one gave the tiny Atlantic archipelago a chance against European champions Spain. A volcanic chain of ten islands with barely 525,000 people, Cape Verde ranks among the smallest nations ever to reach the tournament. Yet over ninety relentless minutes, the so-called Blue Sharks soaked up everything Spain threw at them—27 shots in all—and earned a goalless draw that instantly ranked among the competition's greatest upsets.

6 月 15 日，維德角在亞特蘭大踏上隊史首場世界盃賽事，幾乎沒有人看好這個大西洋上的蕞爾島國能與歐洲冠軍西班牙抗衡。維德角由 10 座火山島組成，人口僅逾 52 萬，是史上晉級世界盃的最小國家之一。然而在 90 分鐘的猛攻中，這支綽號「藍鯊」的球隊，硬生生扛住西班牙多達 27 次射門，最終以 0 比 0 全身而退，這場逼和瞬間被列入世界盃史上最大冷門之一。

At the heart of that defiance stood an unlikely hero: Vozinha, a 40-year-old goalkeeper whose career has been anything but glamorous. Born Josimar José Évora Dias in the port town of Mindelo, he turned professional late and spent nearly two decades drifting through clubs in Angola, Moldova, Cyprus, Slovakia and Portugal, where he now plays in the second division. Against Spain he was imperious, making seven saves to keep one of the oldest clean sheets in World Cup history.

撐起這道防線的，是一位出人意料的英雄：40 歲門將 Vozinha，他的職業生涯談不上風光。本名 Josimar José Évora Dias 的他，出生於港口小鎮 Mindelo，轉職業的時間相當晚，近 20 年來輾轉效力於安哥拉、摩爾多瓦、賽普勒斯、斯洛伐克與葡萄牙的球隊間，如今在葡萄牙乙級聯賽鎮守球門。面對西班牙，他表現神勇，撲救 7 次，寫下世界盃史上數一數二高齡的零失球門神紀錄。

Behind the fairy tale, however, lay a quieter heartbreak. Vozinha's mother could not travel to watch her son make history, because the family failed to raise the money for a U.S. visa in time. Cape Verde is among roughly fifty countries whose citizens have faced visa bonds of up to $15,