{"id":24320,"date":"2024-03-22T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=24320"},"modified":"2024-03-22T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:26:12","slug":"african-games-2023-losing-to-ghana-hard-pill-to-take-falconets-midfielder-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/22\/african-games-2023-losing-to-ghana-hard-pill-to-take-falconets-midfielder-laments\/","title":{"rendered":"African Games 2023: Losing To Ghana Hard Pill To Take \u2013Falconets Midfielder Laments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falconets midfielder Rukayat Shobowale has described the African Games women\u2019s final defeat to Ghana as a hard pill to take.<\/p>\n<p>Despite going behind in the first half, Ghana\u2019s Black Princesses went on to win 2-1 after extra-time in Thursday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>Loveth Edeh gave the Falconets the lead in the 24th minute but Tracy Twum equalised for Ghana on 78 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the 99th minute of extra-time Mukarama Abdullai got the winner for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>The win means Ghana ended Nigeria\u2019s reign as champions in the women\u2019s football event of the African Games.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the defeat, Shobowale went on to thank Nigerians for their support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a hard pill to take loosing the final of the Africa Games,\u201d she wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate Nigerians for their support while in Accra.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falconets midfielder Rukayat Shobowale has described the African Games women\u2019s final defeat to Ghana as a hard pill to take. Despite going behind in the first half, Ghana\u2019s Black Princesses went on to win 2-1 after extra-time in Thursday\u2019s final. Loveth Edeh gave the Falconets the lead in the 24th minute but Tracy Twum equalised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[379],"class_list":["post-24320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-falconets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320","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=24320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24322,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320\/revisions\/24322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}