Satirical take on Curacao and Cape Verde's World Cup qualifying success
By
Ray Ratto
Summary
A humorous, satirical article about World Cup qualifying matches, focusing on the surprising success of smaller nations like Curacao and Cape Verde. The author humorously suggests canceling the remaining games and putting these "postage stamp nations" in the final, while also highlighting the performance of players like Eloy Room, Deniz Undav, and Brian Brobbey. The piece uses exaggerated comedy to celebrate underdog stories in international football.
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· 4 pulledWe can cancel the last 66 games of the World Cup right now and fast forward to the final, because we've seen all we have a right to see.
Put Curacao and Cape Verde in the final, make it The Revenge Of The Postage Stamp Nations and call it a win.
The final may take three days before we get a goal, but that's still a far more economical system than the one we have.
It's actually been quite the dandy pigpile so far, with the big names, the about to be big names (hello Deniz Undav and Brian Brobbey) and the Dutch royal family flying all
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