Round the Cape of Good Hope

First game, first goal, first victory for Portugal: 1 - 0, against a feisty Angolan team; not the best exhibition of the European runners-up, but definitely a much entertaining game!
Two teams playing at probably the highest speed seen so far in this Cup…maybe because they speak the same language…
Portugal squandered a handful of good chances, including one in the first 14 seconds - what could have been the fastest goal of all World Cups…
For many, it was an emotional game, since the ex-colony met the ex-coloniser – more than that, most of Angola players play in Portugal and know many of the Portuguese players as their teem-mates, adversaries, or simply friends.
All Portugal wishes Angola all the best in the rest of the competition – not less because they can help Portugal, if they get results against our next opponents…
By the way, good-old Figo was man-of-the-match... like Port Wine, only gets refined.
More (and better) of that next Saturday…