Quincy brand designs World Cup apparel for Cape Verde National Team
Alex Figueiredo was born in Cape Verde and moved to the Boston area as a teenager. Since 2018, he and his cousin, Felipe Soares, have designed and created shirts for their ISLNDZ clothing brand.
Cape Verde will play in the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 2026. The team qualified to play on soccer’s largest stage across North America later this summer. The “Blue Sharks” qualified for the tournament in the fall of 2025 after defeating Eswatini.
After the match ended, the players and coaches celebrated on the pitch. They were wearing celebratory shirts designed by a man in Quincy. “I’m seeing the shirts on BBC because the athletes are running around with the shirts,” Alex Figueiredo said.
“Seeing it on networks across the world in different languages. They don’t know that a small brand from Quincy, Massachusetts, just made that. ” Figueiredo was born in Cape Verde and moved to the Boston area as a teenager.
Since 2018, he and his cousin, Felipe Soares, have designed and created shirts for their ISLNDZ clothing brand. Figueiredo used his graphic design skills from high school classes to create different shirts, hoodies, and pants. He’s an engineer for his day job.