Kevin Pina, dan wasan tsakiya na Cape Verde, ya rubuta sunansa a tarihin Gasar Duniya, inda ya ci wa Blue Sharks farkon gwal a gasar tare da bugun faɗa mai ƙarfi wanda ya sa ƙungiyar da ke shiga gasar a karon farko ta koma gaba da Uruguay, waɗanda suka lashe kofin sau 2.

Ƙungiyoyin biyu sun haɗu a Rukunin H a Hard Rock Stadium da ke Miami a ranar 21 ga Yuni, 2026, inda Uruguay ta Marcelo Bielsa ake ganin ta fi karfi — duk da cewa Cape Verde ta yi tasirin zama daidai da Spain a wasansu na farko.

Gwal da ya canza komai

A minti na 21, Pina ya tsaya daga nisa mai yadi 25 ya harba bugun fama mai ƙasa zuwa kusurwar ƙasa, inda ya bar mai tsaron gidan Uruguay ba tare da wani amsa ba. Harbin yana da xG na 0.04 kawai, wanda ya nuna daidaito mai ban mamaki.

Mai shekara 29 ya taɓa yin abu irin wannan — ya ci gwal daga nisa iri ɗaya a wasa na yau da kullum da Mozambique a Africa Cup of Nations a shekarar 2023, yana nuna cewa wannan ikon harbi daga nisa ba sanadiyar sa'a ba ce.

Daga Praia zuwa mataki na duniya

An haifi Pina a Praia, babban birnin Cape Verde, kuma ya fara tafiyarsa a kwallon ƙafa da kulob na cikin gari Tchadense. Ya fara aikinsa na ƙwararru da ƙungiyar Fotigal Oliveirense, yana cin aro zuwa Anadia da Sertanense kafin a kai shi Chaves na dindindin.

Ya zauna a Chaves na shekaru da yawa kafin ya shiga kulob din Rasha Krasnodar a shekarar 2022 — kulob din da ya lashe Russian Premier League a kakar 2024/25, ko da yake ya ƙare a matsayi na biyu a kakar da ta gabata.

Pina ya yi wa Cape Verde wasan farko a matakin manyan 'yan wasa a shekarar 2022, a nasara ta 6-0 kan Liechtenstein. Gwal da ya ci wa Uruguay shi ne kawai na uku a tare da Blue Sharks — amma ya riga ya zama mafi muhimmanci a tarihin kwallon ƙafa na tsibirin ƙaramin ƙasar.

Cape Verde, ƙasa da yawan jama'a kusan 500,000, na shiga Gasar Duniya a karon farko. Tare da zama daidai da Spain da yanzu suna ci gaba a gabansu da Uruguay ta hanyar harbin Pina mai ban mamaki, ƙaramin tsibirin yana jawo hankalin masu son kwallon ƙafa a duk duniya.