{"id":923057,"date":"2026-07-28T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/egypt-makes-history-heartbreak-for-cape-verde-at-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:17:03","slug":"egypt-makes-history-heartbreak-for-cape-verde-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/egypt-makes-history-heartbreak-for-cape-verde-at-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt makes history, heartbreak for Cape Verde at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Thousands of jubilant fans flooded the streets of Egypt after the national team made history by reaching the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Egypt defeated Australia 4-2 on penalties after a dramatic 1-1 draw, with Hossam Abdelmaguid scoring the winning spot-kick to spark celebrations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Heartbreak for Cape Verde as the World Cup debutants bowed out after a thrilling 3-2 extra-time defeat to defending champions Argentina. <\/p>\n<p>The Blue Sharks twice battled back to level the match, pushing Lionel Messi&#8217;s side to the limit in one of the tournament&#8217;s biggest surprise performances.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia are through to the World Cup Round of 16 after a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Ghana. <\/p>\n<p>Jhon Arias scored the decisive early goal from a Luis Su\u00e1rez cross, sealing Colombia&#8217;s first knockout-stage win at the tournament since their memorable run to the quarter-finals in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <span \n                data-original-string='\/S8WNatDJYS7coAAuCSYuw==7f4OMMruPA74ftdkrp4VXQMqJCDjplHvAxcm9n+J127GBA='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>ed<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*******<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">********<\/span>ws.com<\/span> (R\u00e9daction Africanews)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2026\/07\/04\/egypt-makes-history-heartbreak-for-cape-verde-at-world-cup\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of jubilant fans flooded the streets of Egypt after the national team made history by reaching the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time. Egypt defeated Australia 4-2 on penalties after a dramatic 1-1 draw, with Hossam Abdelmaguid scoring the winning spot-kick to spark celebrations across the country. Heartbreak for Cape Verde as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28579,397],"tags":[47619,6605],"class_list":["post-923057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","category-makes","tag-egypt","tag-makes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}