{"id":62357,"date":"2025-03-08T21:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62357"},"modified":"2025-03-08T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:48:05","slug":"flamingos-stun-south-africa-with-vital-away-win-in-u-17-wwcq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/08\/flamingos-stun-south-africa-with-vital-away-win-in-u-17-wwcq\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingos Stun South Africa with Vital Away Win in U-17 WWCQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s U-17 women\u2019s national team, the Flamingos, made a bold statement in their 2025 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup qualifying campaign with a commanding 3-1 away victory over South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The young Nigerian side displayed grit and dominance, securing a crucial first-leg advantage ahead of the return fixture on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>With this victory, Coach Bankole Olowookere\u2019s team takes a significant step toward World Cup qualification, but they must stay focused to finish the job in the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, eager to overturn the deficit, will pose a tough challenge, but the Flamingos remain in pole position to advance.<\/p>\n<p>The return leg\u2019s date and venue will be confirmed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Nigeria\u2019s U-17 women\u2019s national team, the Flamingos, made a bold statement in their 2025 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup qualifying campaign with a commanding 3-1 away victory over South Africa. The young Nigerian side displayed grit and dominance, securing a crucial first-leg advantage ahead of the return fixture on home soil. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62357","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62359,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62357\/revisions\/62359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}