# 스웨덴 7-1 쿠바: 카리브해 다크호스의 마지막 행진
I first heard about Cuba's 1938 World Cup team in a dusty second-hand bookshop in Bologna, of all places. The owner, a retired schoolteacher named Enzo who chain-drank espresso at a rate that would terrify most cardiologists, had a small section on f
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Sweden 7-1 Cuba: The Last Stand of the Caribbean Dark Horse
1958. Sweden. World Cup quarterfinals. Sweden vs. Cuba. How did Cuba make it to the World Cup quarterfinals? They were a team of amateur players, training on sandy pitches in the streets of Havana. In the first round, they pulled off an upset by eliminating Romania—a European team—and miraculously advanced to the knockout stage.
But the miracle came to a halt in the quarterfinals. The host nation, Sweden—the team boasting the Gre-No-Li trio—gave Cuba no chance. 7-1. Sweden's attacking power was overwhelming, and they eventually finished as runners-up in that World Cup, losing at home to a 17-year-old Brazilian kid named Pelé. Cuba's World Cup journey was over, but their quarterfinal record has stood to this day—no Caribbean team has ever gone further in the World Cup. More than six decades later, Cuba can still say: "We once made it to the World Cup quarterfinals." That statement came at the cost of a crushing 7-1 defeat.