Cape Verde's Vozinha Cries Tears of Joy as Mother Misses Historic Draw Against Spain

Keeper Vozinha was named player of the match after making seven saves in his side's 0-0 draw against Spain. Vozinha was in tears at full time because his mother couldn't afford the visa to the US to see history being made.

Vozinha described the game as the moment he had been working towards his entire life and said he wished he could have shared the moment with his late grandparents and his mother.

Cape Verde's head coach, Bubista, said: 'Vozinha is overwhelmed by the emotion. He has made a huge effort to be here, and those were tears of resilience '

The Cape Verde head coach described the team as 'overcoming obstacles' and showed their 'resilience' in the historic match.

Our best weapon is our unity, The way we treat our family is our best strength. Everyone thought we came here just to enjoy the World Cup, but we know we have a team that deserves respect.

Vozinha has been Cape Verde's number one goalkeeper for 13 years.

Spain, unsurprisingly, had the majority of possession but struggled to break down Cape Verde's well-organized defense, Ferran Torres hit the bar in the European champions' best chance. Everything that was on target Vozinha stopped.

This means everything for the country, we've always said that we want the whole world to see how our team plays, we showed courage, playing in a way that is a metaphor for our country: with resilience and overcoming obstacles

Our goal is to play all the games with our strategy and our coach's tactics. We will try to do better than today's game, I hope we can win some games and who knows maybe go through to the next round