Cape Verde keen on promoting Portuguese language

[Folami David]

Cape Verde's soccer team say they are doing their best to promote the Portuguese language by refusing to give interviews in any other Language at the African Nations Cup.
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' One of the reasons why Portuguese is not well projected internationally is that we enjoy being polite to foreigners and speak to them in their languages '', team spokesman Gerson de Matos told Portuguese daily a Bola on Wednesday.
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The order to stick to Portuguese at the tournament in South Africa came from Cape Verde President Jorge Carlos Fonseca.
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'' We are over 200 million Portuguese speakers in the world; if we made the point of speaking Portuguese maybe people would take our language more seriously '', Mantos said.