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The World Cup's most unlikely hero! Roberto 'Pico' Lopes is the product of an Irish ...

The Daily Mail 16 Jun 2026
NATHAN SALT. When the dust settles on Roberto Lopes' story, he'll look back on a tale that had the potential to be full of what ifs. What if, while at college, he had not set up a LinkedIn profile? ....
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Roberto 'Pico' Lopes: the Irish Cape Verde international whose bizarre call-up led to World Cup glory

Yahoo Daily News 16 Jun 2026
Dublin-born skipper 'Pico' Lopes revels in Cape Verde World Cup glory ... The nature of their approach to Pico, however, was somewhat out of the ordinary ... Pico's journey, now widely celebrated, is a ...
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Pico Lopes ‘overwhelmed’ by support from Ireland following World Cup debut

The Irish Times 16 Jun 2026
The demands of the World Cup are such that RobertoPico’ Lopes has no time to bask with the rest of us in his remarkable story ... ... Pico Lopes of Cape Verde tackles Spain's Pedri during Monday's World Cup Group H game in Atlanta, which finished 0-0.
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Pico Lopes interview: 'Third place might be enough, football doesn't always respect the odds, there are ups...

Yahoo Daily News 16 Jun 2026
Pico Lopes helped Cape Verde secure historic qualification for their first-ever World Cup earlier this year, then started their opening group stage match vs Spain at center-back in Atlanta on June 15 ... Advertisement. Advertisement ... Pico Lopes ... PL ... PL ... PL ... .
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Football Daily | ‘Pico’ Lopes and Cape Verde give Spain’s boys one hell of a neutralising

The Guardian 16 Jun 2026
About a month ago, RobertoPico” Lopes thought he was meeting his parents for a Sunday dinner in Crumlin on the outskirts of Dublin, but was met by a ...
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Football fans gather to support Pico Lopes in World Cup clash

RTE 15 Jun 2026
Football fans have gathered in Tallaght to watch Cape Verde play Spain in their Group H World Cup opener in Atlanta as Robert 'Pico' Lopes plays for the island nation ... Pico Lopes is the only current ...
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Pico Lopes: Total Football meets the man from Crumlin playing at the World Cup with ...

RTE 15 Jun 2026
Not all heroes wear a Cape Verde jersey, but we have found one to get behind at the World Cup this summer - let's go Roberto 'Pico' Lopes! ... Pico explains that he qualifies to play for Cape Verde through his father Carlos.
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Crumlin gripped by World Cup fever as dream becomes a reality for Pico Lopes’s parents

The Irish Times 15 Jun 2026
This is where Shamrock Rovers defender RobertoPico” Lopes (33) began his improbable journey to the World Cup ... Judy and Carlos Lopes with the baby-blue shark given to them by their son Pico, in acknowledgment of Cape Verde's 'Blue Sharks' nickname.
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Cape Verde and Crumlin’s Pico Lopes keep Spain at bay to secure historic World Cup point

The Irish Times 15 Jun 2026
World Cup Group H. Spain 0 Cape Verde 0. Wow, just wow ... Bubista had said that he wanted the world to see who and what they are and, boy, did they see ... So what was this? This was wonderful ... An Atlantic archipelago of 600,000 people ... All of them ... READ MORE.
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Sonic dev says the video game industry can learn from Backrooms' success

Polygon 15 Jun 2026
Sonic the Hedgehog series producer Takashi Iizuka believes that even the video game industry can learn from the recent success of lower-budget horror movies like Backrooms ....
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Sonic Pico Park trades fast-paced platforming for cute co-op puzzling and was one of the ...

TechRadar 14 Jun 2026
We go hands-on with the cute upcoming co-op crossover platformer Sonic Pico Park at Summer Game Fest 2026 ... .
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