So far, this is the highest-scoring match at the World Cup — eight goals.
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The Germans scored in the 6th minute: Felix Nmecha found the net, 13 minutes later Livano Comenencia equalized, Curaçao held on until around the 38th minute, and then fell apart. Schlotterbeck, Havertz from a penalty, Musiala, Braun, Undav, Havertz again. The result was 7:1.
Before this, the highest-scoring game was USA — Paraguay.
The Curaçao national team is a small island in the Caribbean Sea with a population of 155,000 people. A self-governing territorial entity within the Netherlands. The island has extensive autonomy: its own government, parliament, constitution, and laws, but the Netherlands is responsible for foreign policy and defense. However, it is a FIFA member, like Gibraltar or the Faroe Islands.
This is Curaçao's debut at the World Cup, which it reached because the USA, Canada, and Mexico received direct qualifications as hosts, but Curaçao qualified for the championship, while Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica did not.
Usually, four teams from North and Central America directly qualified for the World Cup, and the team that finished 4th went to intercontinental play-off matches.
In today's starting lineup for Curaçao, three players were from the Dutch top division, one from the second division, two players from the English Championship (second division), one from the Turkish Süper Lig, captain Leandro Bacuna from "Iğdır" of the Turkish second division, two players from "Miami FC" of the American second division (not to be confused with Lionel Messi's "Inter Miami"). Comenencia, who scored the goal, is from Swiss "Zürich".
Ivory Coast and Ecuador are also playing in this group (match at 2 AM).
Today at 11 PM — Netherlands — Japan, tomorrow: Spain — Cape Verde (7:00 PM), Belgium — Egypt (10:00 PM)
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