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Fans react to their team鈥檚 World Cup debut

Cape Verde, Cura莽ao, Jordan and Uzbekistan have qualified for the first time.

This year鈥檚 Fifa World Cup is the biggest yet. The football tournament is being co-hosted by Mexico, Canada and the United States and has a record 48 teams taking part. Four of those teams have qualified for the first time ever: Cape Verde, Cura莽ao, Jordan and Uzbekistan. In this episode, we get familiar with the debuting nations on and off the pitch with some of our 麻豆社 reporters, including Paul Njie, a senior journalist at 麻豆社 Africa, and Husam Assal, a 麻豆社 reporter in Amman.

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Presenter: Iqra Farooq
Producers: William Lee Adams, Benita Barden and Julia Ross-Roy
Editor: Verity Wilde

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Tue 16 Jun 2026 02:50GMT
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