{"id":41447,"date":"2024-08-01T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41447"},"modified":"2024-08-01T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T09:17:10","slug":"forget-paris-olympic-results-focus-on-2025-wafcon-ekpo-tells-super-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/01\/forget-paris-olympic-results-focus-on-2025-wafcon-ekpo-tells-super-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Paris Olympic Results, Focus On 2025 WAFCON  \u2013 Ekpo Tells Super Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian international, Friday Ekpo, has urged the Super Falcons to focus on the 2025 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations after the team\u2019s exit from the Paris Olympic women\u2019s football event.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Nigeria lost their final group C game against Japan on Wednesday, to finish the tournament without a win. The team had first lost to Brazil and Spain, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting after Nigeria\u2019s exit, Ekpo stated that the Super Falcons should forget about the disappointment of the Paris Olympics and focus on the 2025 WAFCON.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter this tournament, I think the team needs better preparation and introduction of young players in the Super Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should accept the reality that the team is out of the Olympic Games and focus on helping have a better showing at the 2025 wafcon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players must come home with their heads held high.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian international, Friday Ekpo, has urged the Super Falcons to focus on the 2025 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations after the team\u2019s exit from the Paris Olympic women\u2019s football event. Recall that Nigeria lost their final group C game against Japan on Wednesday, to finish the tournament without a win. The team had first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[799],"class_list":["post-41447","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\/41447","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=41447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41449,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41447\/revisions\/41449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}