Cape Verde national football team

Cape Verde
Nickname(s)	Tubarões Azuis (Blue Sharks),; Crioulos (Creoles)
Association	Federação Caboverdiana; de Futebol
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Head coach	João de Deus
Most caps	Bubista
Home stadium	Estádio da Várzea
FIFA code	CPV
FIFA ranking	94
Highest FIFA ranking	68 (July 2007)
Lowest FIFA ranking	182 (April 2000)
Elo ranking	T117
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Guinea-Bissau 3 - 0 Cape Verde ; (Guinea-Bissau; January 7, 1979)
Biggest win
	Cape Verde 5 - 0 Equatorial Guinea; (Sal, Cape Verde; March 28, 2009)
Biggest defeat
	Senegal 5 - 1 Cape Verde ; (Mali; February 12, 1981); Cape Verde 0 - 4 Ghana ; (Praia, Cape Verde; October 8, 2005)

The Cape Verde national football team, nicknamed either Tubarões Azuis (Blue Sharks) or Crioulos (Creoles), is the national team of Cape Verde and is controlled by the Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol. It has never made the World Cup or the African Nations Cup. The team almost qualified for the African Nations Cup in 2006, at one time lying second in their qualifying group behind South Africa

For the first time, on November 2, 2002, it faced a non-African team, Luxembourg, in a friendly, resulting in a scoreless draw.

[edit] Cape Verde Football Achievements

Amilcar Cabral Cup :

The following players were called for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Tanzania on October 12, 2008.

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Club
1	GK	Ernesto	October 5, 1979 (1979-10-05) (age 29)	Doxa Katokopia
2	DF	Pedro Pelé	May 2, 1978 (1978-05-02) (age 31)	West Bromwich Albion
3	DF	Ricardo	August 19, 1980 (1980-08-19) (age 28)	Paços de Ferreira
4	MF	Guy Ramos	16 August 1985 (1985-08-16) (age 23)	Dordrecht
5	MF	Ronny	7 December 1978 (1978-12-07) (age 30)	F91 Dudelange
6	DF	Nando	June 9, 1978 (1978-06-09) (age 31)	Al-Siliya
7	MF	Nhuck		CD Fátima
9	FW	Alison Brito		Monte Carlo
10	FW	Dady	August 13, 1981 (1981-08-13) (age 27)	Osasuna
11	MF	Lito	February 3, 1975 (1975-02-03) (age 34)	Académica de Coimbra
12	GK	Fock	July 25, 1982 (1982-07-25) (age 26)	Mindelense
13	MF	Valter Borges	November 9, 1988 (1988-11-09) (age 20)	CD Santa Clara
14	DF	Janício	November 30, 1979 (1979-11-30) (age 29)	Anorthosis Famagusta
15	MF	Marco Soares	June 6, 1984 (1984-06-06) (age 25)	União Leiria
16	FW	Mateus Lopes	December 7, 1975 (1975-12-07) (age 33)	Rio Ave
17	MF	Emerson	July 11, 1982 (1982-07-11) (age 26)	C.F. Gloria 1922 Bistriţa
18	DF	Varela	November 26, 1987 (1987-11-26) (age 21)	Estoril-Praia

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
7	FW	Já	March 18, 1987 (1987-03-18) (age 22)			En Avant Guingamp (WCQ v. Cameroon, 6 September)
8	FW	Cecilio Lopes	March 18, 1979 (1979-03-18) (age 30)			FC Dordrecht (WCQ v. Cameroon, 6 September)
9	FW	Toy Costa	June 15, 1977 (1977-06-15) (age 32)			Olhanense (WCQ v. Cameroon, 6 September)
16	DF	Stopira	May 20, 1988 (1988-05-20) (age 21)			CD Santa Clara (WCQ v. Cameroon, 6 September)
2	DF	Gilberto	April 18, 1986 (1986-04-18) (age 23)			Yverdon-Sport (WCQ v. Mauritius, 22 June)
7	FW	Silvino Soares	July 10, 1978 (1978-07-10) (age 30)			Red Star Waasland (WCQ v. Mauritius, 22 June)
8	MF	Karr	February 4, 1988 (1988-02-04) (age 21)			Olhanense (WCQ v. Mauritius, 22 June)
14	MF	Babanco				Sporting Praia (WCQ v. Mauritius, 22 June)
7	FW	Hernâni	August 27, 1981 (1981-08-27) (age 27)			FC Wil (WCQ v. Mauritius, 15 June)
7	MF	Néné	August 24, 1979 (1979-08-24) (age 29)			Enosis Neon Paralimni (WCQ v. Cameroon, May 31)
	GK	Cesar Cruz	October 2, 1985 (1985-10-02) (age 23)			BK-46 (Friendly v. Luxembourg, 27 May)
	DF	Toy Adão				Académica do Mindelo (Friendly v. Luxembourg, 27 May)
	MF	Mickaël Tavares	October 25, 1982 (1982-10-25) (age 26)	0	0	Hamburger SV (Friendly v. Luxembourg, 27 May)