{"id":23665,"date":"2024-03-19T09:09:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=23665"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:09:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:09:27","slug":"african-games-2023-falconets-defeat-uganda-to-reach-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/19\/african-games-2023-falconets-defeat-uganda-to-reach-final\/","title":{"rendered":"African Games 2023: Falconets Defeat Uganda To Reach Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Falconets have reached the final of the women\u2019s football event of the African Games 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Falconets achieved this after recording a 2-0 win against Uganda in the semi-finals on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Second half goals from Okah Adaobi and Chiamaka Okwuchukwu secured the win.<\/p>\n<p>Adaobi opened the scoring in the 74th minute before Okwuchukwu added the second on 89 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It is now three wins in three games for the Christopher Danjuma-led side.<\/p>\n<p>The team opened their Group B campaign with a 2-0 win against Morocco before hammering Senegal 4-0 in their second game.<\/p>\n<p>The Falconets are the defending champions of the African Games women\u2019s football event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Falconets have reached the final of the women\u2019s football event of the African Games 2023. The Falconets achieved this after recording a 2-0 win against Uganda in the semi-finals on Monday. Second half goals from Okah Adaobi and Chiamaka Okwuchukwu secured the win. Adaobi opened the scoring in the 74th minute before Okwuchukwu added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[765],"class_list":["post-23665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-nigerias-falconets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23667,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665\/revisions\/23667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}