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Fans react to their team’s World Cup debut

Cape Verde, Curaçao, Jordan and Uzbekistan have qualified for the first time.

This year’s 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, Curaçao, Jordan and Uzbekistan. In this episode, we get familiar with the debuting nations on and off the pitch with some of our BBC reporters, including Paul Njie, a senior journalist at BBC Africa, and Husam Assal, a BBC 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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