Mutane kaɗan sun shirya agogon faɗakarwa don kallon wasan Urugwai da Cape Verde da dare. Mafi yawansu sun tsammanin sakamakon ya riga ya bayyana. Sun yi kuskure.

Cape Verde — ƙungiyar tsiburai masu warwatse tare da yawan jama'a kusan 500,000 a gabar tekun Afirka ta Yamma — sun dakatar da masu taken gasar sau biyu da canjaras 2-2, suna tsawaita jerin wasannin da ba a ci su ba a FIFA World Cup 2026 zuwa wasanni biyu kuma suna tabbatar da matsayinsu a matsayin labarin da ya fi jan hankali a gasar.

Fiye da ƙungiyar tsaro kawai

Canjaras ɗinsu na farko da Spain ya nuna cewa Cape Verde na iya ja da baya da jimrewa da matsi. A kan Uruguay, sun bayyana wani abu mai ɗara sosai — cewa suna iya wasa.

Dan wasan tsakiya Telmo Arcanjo ya gabatar da kansa ga duniya tare da gudu na musamman wanda ya fara daga rabin filinsa, yana wucewa Manuel Ugarte kafin ya jawo katin rawaya daga Rodrigo Bentancur. Tak bayan haka, Kevin Pina ya harba bugun farko daga nesa wanda ya shiga kusurwar ƙasa, yana ba Cape Verde gaba.

Kirkirar wasa bai tsaya ba. Garry Rodrigues — wanda ya kasance mai isar da wasiku yayin da yake buga ƙwallon ƙafa ta matakin hobist a farkon rayuwarsa — ya yi nutmeg akan tsohon ɗan wasan Manchester United Guillermo Varela da wuri. Jamiro Monteiro ya tafi da ƙwallon sama da 'yan wasan tsakiya na Uruguay yayin da yake gina hare-hare cikin nutsuwa daga yankin hukunci nasa. Ƙungiyar har ta yi ƙoƙari ta kama Fernando Muslera a waje daga bugun gefe, sannan ta yi ƙoƙari ta yi masa chip daga tsakiyar filin.

Ƙwallo ta biyu watakila ita ce mafi ban mamaki. Mai maye gurbi Helio Varela, wanda ya shiga filin mintuna uku kawai, ya ruga ƙwallon sama da Muslera — wanda ke shiga gasar cin kofin duniya a karo na biyar — kuma ya ƙare daga nesa cikin ragar kofa fanko.

Ƴan wasa goma suna ci gaba da gwagwarmaya

Wasan Cape Verde a rabin farko bai ƙare da wannan ba. Arcanjo, yana fama da matsalar hamstring, ya ƙi barin filin kafin hutu, yana son rayar da mafarkinsa na Kofin Duniya. Yana wasa duk da ciwo, bai iya komawa cikin sauri don rufe wucewa guda biyu da suka haifar da ƙwallaye biyu na Uruguay ba — sauran lokutan ɗaya a cikin minti 90 da suka gwada mai tsaron raga Vozinha, jarumin da ya cika shekara 40.

Ƙungiyar Marcelo Bielsa ta amfana daga rashin daidaito na Cape Verde fiye da ingancin nasu. Tsaron Uruguay shi ne ya damun wani lokaci — katangar ƴan wasa biyu ta buɗe ta ba Pina damar jefa ƙwallon bugun farko, yayin da wuce gona da iri daga mai tsaron gida Mathias Olivera ya bai wa Cape Verde hanyar komawa wasan.

Jaruman da ke bayan sihiri

Himmar da ke bayan ƙwarewar ɗaukaka ta yi ban sha'awa daidai wa daida. Sidny Lopes Cabral, wanda aka ba shi katin gargaɗi da wuri kamar yadda ya faru da Spain, ya ci da samun nasara a gasa goma daga cikin 15. Ƴan wasan tsaro Pico Lopes — wanda aka haife shi a Dublin — da Diney Borges sun yi kaurara 28 tare, yana ƙara wa 19 da suka yi a matsayin nau'i guda a wasan farko.

Abin da ke gabatowa

Cape Verde za su buga da Saudi Arabia a wasan ƙarshensu na Rukunin H, wasan da ake ganin su ne abokin hamayya. Don tabbatar da cancantar shiga zagaye na gaba, dole ne su yi fiye da sakamakon Uruguay da Spain a rana ta ƙarshe — kuma suna da wasan da ya fi dacewa. Idan sun ƙare na biyu a rukunin, akwai yiwuwar su fuskanci Argentina a zagaye na 32.

Duk wanda ya ɗauko kofin FIFA World Cup 2026 a ƙarshe za a yi murna da shi a duniya baki ɗaya. Amma yanzu haka, Cape Verde ita ce ƙungiyar da duniya ta rungume — kuma labarin da ba wanda ke son ya ƙare.