Africa-Press – Cape verde. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) today highlighted the fact that Cape Verde has become the “smallest nation to qualify for a World Cup” in the sport following the victory, this afternoon, of the Cape Verdean basketball team over Costa of Ivory and the subsequent qualification for the 2023 World Cup.
The FIBA website states that, in addition to making history by qualifying for the first time for the World Cup, “Cape Verde is now also the smallest nation to qualify for a World Cup, beating the record previously set by Montenegro in the 2019 World Cup”.
The International Basketball Federation recalls that before Montenegro, at the time with a population of around 620,000, in 2006, the record belonged to Qatar, whose population was just under 1 million.
Cape Verde small, Eddy Tavares big
FIBA also points out that, despite Cape Verde’s small size, its star player, Walter “Eddy” Tavares, a 2 meter and 20 cm center, “is far from being a small player”, having been “arguably the best player in Cabo Verde in the qualifiers averaging 15.0 points, 12.8 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game before his decisive victory in World Cup qualification”.
However, according to FIBA, Cape Verde may not keep this record for long. Iceland (and its population of 347,101) could potentially break that record tonight if they beat Georgia by 4 or more points.
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