In the 63 minute Fabio Coentrao sends in a cross and CR7 engineers a blatant "Hand of God" look alike. The Real Madrid striker's ruse earned him a yellow card and plenty of sheepish looks.

The match is not what you would call a morale booster. The number 3 FIFA ranked team taking on 117th ranked Cape Verde in a friendly and failing to score a goal.

One last time before the World Cup the powers at FIFA have laid out their rankings of every national team in the world. But more importantly: in the process they've ranked the World Cup teams from 1-32.

There haven't been any big leaps Ecuador dropping off the mountain 8 spots is the biggest mover, but that's of no interest and the only change in the top 15 is that Egypt moved up to make 10, 11 & 12 a nice trifecta of World Cup absentees.

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Mame Biram Diouf scored the winning goal in Senegal's 1-0 win over Cape Verde.

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The World Cup is weeks away and Portugal kicked off their friendly schedule with a stinkier in Covilha against African minnows Cape Verde. The hosts dominated most of the game as expected but lacked that finishing touch with Ronaldo leading the way in guilt of this. Portugal who have two more friendlies before the start of the World Cup, one with Cameroon on June 1st and the other with

Portugal and Cape Verde played out a frustrating 0-0 stalemate, which brings a wave of red flags ahead of the World Cup.
The Portuguese entered the game showing their attacking intent, but every time they got close to Cape Verde's goal, it was only with modest danger.

As soon as the game started it soon became obvious it was the qualifiers all over again. Sven did his home-work on "how not to loose against Portugal". All he needed was to review every single game of our qualifiers for this world cup. Put eleven men behind the ball. Defend. Defend some more. Defend a little longer and wait for a breach in our wall.

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Portugal got off to a sluggish start againt Mozambique in part in what could have been the team reacting to the loss of Nani for their World Cup campaign. The team announced that Nani would miss the entire tournament and has been replaced by Benfica midfielder Ruben Amorim. The team went into the half scoreless and flashes of a zero-zero draw to Cape Verde a few weeks earlier started dancing

Nani was given the responsibility of helping Bebe settle in when he first signed for the club in the summer and has been a great help to the youngster.

Nani was born in the same city as Bebe's parents, helping strengthen the bond and sense of home our new player has enjoyed since moving to Manchester.