Considering the usual mobilizing of sport in the formation of identity discourses, this study aims to discussing the representations on local press about the participation of Cape Verde´s national football team in Amílcar Cabral Cup. This tournament was established in 1979 and it includes the countries which belong to Zone 2 of The Supreme Council for Sport in Africa. We worked with Voz di Povo, directed by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which ruled the country between 1975 and 1991.We suggest that the different points of view about the country´s engagement in this tournament can let us perceive chances in the government administration of Cape Verde, related to the negotiations about cape-verdean identity.
Cape Verde; identity; football; sport history