Cabo Verde, which has a population of about 5.5 lakh, was competing in the World Cup for the first time. Its campaign ended with a 3-2 defeat to Argentina in the Round of 32.
Argentina survived two Cabo Verde comebacks before edging a thrilling 3-2 win in extra time to reach the quarter-finals. They will face Egypt in the Round of 16.
Morocco, South Africa, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cabo Verde, Egypt, Congo, and Algeria have qualified for the knockout stages. Only Tunisia missed out on the next round.
On their FIFA World Cup debut, Cabo Verde went unbeaten in all group stage matches—0-0 against Spain, 2-2 against Uruguay, and another draw against Saudi Arabia. They are set to face Argentina in the Round of 32.
Spain’s tiki-taka football indeed delivered success, including back-to-back Euros in 2008 and 2012 and the World Cup trophy in 2010. However, things have changed since 2014.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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