{"id":64190,"date":"2025-04-13T22:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64190"},"modified":"2025-04-13T22:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:36:29","slug":"amac-kwali-shine-as-fct-womens-football-tournament-kicks-off-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/13\/amac-kwali-shine-as-fct-womens-football-tournament-kicks-off-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"AMAC, Kwali Shine as FCT Women\u2019s Football Tournament Kicks Off in Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The maiden edition of the FCT FA Inter-Area Councils Women\u2019s Football Tournament got off to an electrifying start, with commanding victories for AMAC and Kwali in their opening games.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, April 10, 2025, fans were treated to thrilling action as AMAC secured a confident 2-0 win over Bwari at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium Practice Pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, Kwali delivered a statement performance with an emphatic 9-1 triumph over Abaji at the Abaji Football Pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by the FCT Football Association through its Women\u2019s Football Committee, the tournament aims to unearth new talents while promoting gender inclusion in football across all six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the crowd after the kickoff match, Mr. Kayode Adeniyi, General Manager of NTA Sports, praised the organisers for their vision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This tournament is a bold and timely intervention to empower the girl-child and foster growth in women\u2019s football,&#8221; Adeniyi remarked.<\/p>\n<p>With a promising start already setting the tone, anticipation continues to build as the competition progresses, offering a platform for young talents to shine on a bigger stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The maiden edition of the FCT FA Inter-Area Councils Women\u2019s Football Tournament got off to an electrifying start, with commanding victories for AMAC and Kwali in their opening games. On Thursday, April 10, 2025, fans were treated to thrilling action as AMAC secured a confident 2-0 win over Bwari at the Moshood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64190","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\/64190","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64192,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64190\/revisions\/64192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}