{"id":7089,"date":"2026-07-27T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:59:11","slug":"cape-verdes-sidny-lopes-cabral-wins-goal-of-2026-world-cup-for-stunner-vs-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7089","title":{"rendered":"Cape Verde&#039;s Sidny Lopes Cabral Wins Goal Of 2026 World Cup For Stunner vs. Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Cape Verde made more World Cup history on Monday when Sidny Lopes Cabral won the public vote for goal of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Lopes Cabral\u2019s curling shot into the far top corner of the Argentina net was a standout moment at the World Cup where the unheralded African team made a stellar debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>His goal tied defending champion Argentina at 2-2 in extra time of their thrilling round of 32 game in Miami Gardens. Cape Verde would eventually lose 3-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Lopes Cabral\u2019s goal was voted best of the 308 goals scored at the tournament, ahead of Eldor Shomurodov&#8217;s delicate lob for Uzbekistan against Congo and Wilson Isidor of Haiti scoring with a powerful rising shot against Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>FIFA drew up a shortlist of 12 goals for public voting that closed Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Lopes Cabral\u2019s celebration also entered World Cup lore as he broke free of teammates reaching to grab him before climbing into the tribune to hug his girlfriend and look for his mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>&#8220;Before the game, I\u2019d told my mom and my girlfriend that if I scored, I\u2019d run over to them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When I got there, I saw my mom crying. She hadn\u2019t even realized I was right there. Everyone was busy tending to her because she had fainted when I scored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Cape Verde defied both World Cup finalists in its four games, after goalkeeper Vozinha\u2019s standout display saw his team open with a 0-0 draw to stun eventual champion Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Cape Verde made more World Cup history on Monday when Sidny Lopes Cabral won the public vote for goal of the tournament. Lopes Cabral\u2019s curling shot into the far top corner of the Argentina net was a standout moment at the World Cup where the unheralded African team made a stellar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}