{"id":572109,"date":"2026-07-06T20:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/572109\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:11:26","slug":"pico-lopes-gets-heros-welcome-at-dublin-airport-after-cape-verdes-fairytale-world-cup-run-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/572109\/","title":{"rendered":"Pico Lopes gets hero's welcome at Dublin Airport after Cape Verde's fairytale World Cup run – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Pico Lopes gets hero’s welcome at Dublin Airport after Cape Verde’s fairytale World Cup run<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Roberto ‘Pico’ Lopes welcomed home after Cape Verde World Cup adventure<\/a>  RTE.ie<\/li>\n
  3. \u2018I never thought I\u2019d share the same pitch, and give him a shove\u2019: Pico\u2019s Messi \u2018dream\u2019<\/a>  The Irish Times<\/li>\n
  4. \u2018If Pico was 24 we\u2019d get \u20ac10m for him\u2019 \u2014 Stephen Bradley on Roberto Lopes\u2019 World Cup fairy tale<\/a>  Irish Independent<\/li>\n
  5. Colin Sheridan: What Pico Lopes and Cape Verde can teach Ireland about international football<\/a>  Irish Examiner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pico Lopes gets hero’s welcome at Dublin Airport after Cape Verde’s fairytale World Cup run  The Journal Roberto ‘Pico’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[73793,26,18,158560,19,17,132],"class_list":["post-572109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cape-verde","tag-dublin-airport","tag-eire","tag-hero","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116874856764635227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}