About This Match
🥊 This is a CLASH OF WORLDS! In the red corner, SPAIN — the architects of tiki-taka, the empire that conquered everything from 2008 to 2012 and have never let us forget it, ready to suffocate you with a thousand passes until your defense simply gives up! And in the blue corner, the BLUE SHARKS of CAPE VERDE — a tiny Atlantic archipelago that has spat in the face of logic and geography, lurking in disciplined shape, waiting to spring those athletic runners the INSTANT they smell blood in the water! Spanish artistry against Cape Verdean defiance — patience versus the pounce — and on the grandest stage of all, SOMETHING has to give!
Cape Verde
Human Rights & Country Data
Spain
Freedom House
Political rights and civil liberties score (higher = more free)
Reporters Without Borders
Press Freedom Index ranking (lower = more free, out of 180 countries)
UN Human Development Index
Human Development Index score (higher = more developed, 0–1 scale)
Transparency International
Perceived public sector corruption — higher is cleaner
ILGA World
Legal status of same-sex relationships
Cape Verde
Freedom House
Political rights and civil liberties score (higher = more free)
Reporters Without Borders
Press Freedom Index ranking (lower = more free, out of 180 countries)
UN Human Development Index
Human Development Index score (higher = more developed, 0–1 scale)
Transparency International
Perceived public sector corruption — higher is cleaner
ILGA World
Legal status of same-sex relationships