{"id":52450,"date":"2024-10-17T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=52450"},"modified":"2024-10-17T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:46:17","slug":"nigerias-u17-womens-team-makes-statement-with-4-1-win-over-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/17\/nigerias-u17-womens-team-makes-statement-with-4-1-win-over-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerias U17 Women&#8217;s Team Makes Statement with 4-1 Win Over New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s U-17 Women&#8217;s Football Team, the Flamingos, kicked off their 2024 FIFA U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup campaign in style, defeating New Zealand 4-1 in their opening match. This impressive victory earned them their first three points in the tournament .<\/p>\n<p>The Flamingos dominated the game from the start, scoring their first goal in just two minutes through Shakirat Moshood . Khadijat Adegoke doubled Nigeria&#8217;s lead in the 13th minute with a powerful shot that slipped through the hands of New Zealand goalkeeper Brooke Neary.<\/p>\n<p>Faridat Abdulwahab scored the third goal in the 28th minute, and Taiwo Afolabi sealed the win with a header in the 55th minute.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand finally got on the scoreboard in the 60th minute with a goal from Hannah Saxon.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the consolation goal, Nigeria&#8217;s superior possession, territory, and shots on goal made the difference .<\/p>\n<p>The Flamingos&#8217; outstanding performance was recognized as Taiwo Afolabi was awarded the Player of the Match . Nigeria&#8217;s next matches in the group stage will be crucial in determining their progression in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s U-17 Women&#8217;s Football Team, the Flamingos, kicked off their 2024 FIFA U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup campaign in style, defeating New Zealand 4-1 in their opening match. This impressive victory earned them their first three points in the tournament . The Flamingos dominated the game from the start, scoring their first goal in just two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":52451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52450","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52472,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52450\/revisions\/52472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}