{"id":41352,"date":"2024-07-31T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41352"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:13:11","slug":"paris-2024-womens-football-ucheibe-confident-super-falcons-will-overcome-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/31\/paris-2024-womens-football-ucheibe-confident-super-falcons-will-overcome-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2024 Women\u2019s Football: Ucheibe Confident Super Falcons Will Overcome Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Falcons forward Christy Ucheibe has discussed the team\u2019s chances ahead of the crucial clash against Japan.<br \/>\nRandy Waldrum\u2019s side will take on the Asian champions in their last group game at the Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes on Wednesday (today).<\/p>\n<p>After consecutive defeats to Brazil and Spain, the nine-time African champions are still searching for their win first in the women\u2019s football event.<br \/>\nThe Super Falcons must beat the Nadeshiko to have any hope of progressing to the quarter-finals, either via goal difference in second, or from third spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s hope that we can still qualify. I think we need to utilize our chances against our opponents,\u201d the midfielder said ahead of the game.<br \/>\n\u201cWe must do everything right when we get to the final third, we need to be more clinical in front of goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s encounter at the Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes will kick off at 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Falcons forward Christy Ucheibe has discussed the team\u2019s chances ahead of the crucial clash against Japan. Randy Waldrum\u2019s side will take on the Asian champions in their last group game at the Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes on Wednesday (today). After consecutive defeats to Brazil and Spain, the nine-time African champions are still searching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[799],"class_list":["post-41352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-super-falcons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41352","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=41352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41354,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41352\/revisions\/41354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}