{"id":68688,"date":"2025-06-21T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68688"},"modified":"2025-06-21T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:10:47","slug":"rinsola-babajide-ecstatic-over-first-super-falcons-wafcon-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/21\/rinsola-babajide-ecstatic-over-first-super-falcons-wafcon-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Rinsola Babajide Ecstatic Over First Super Falcons WAFCON Call-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian forward Rinsola Babajide has expressed overwhelming joy after earning her maiden call-up to the Super Falcons\u2019 24-player squad for the 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Babajide, who will be making her debut in a major senior tournament, shared her excitement on social media, calling it \u201cthe greatest honour\u201d to represent Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Falcons will play warm-up matches against Portugal on June 23 in Lisbon and Ghana on June 29 in Morocco before facing Tunisia, Botswana, and Algeria in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Led by captain Rasheedat Ajibade and stars like Chiamaka Nnadozie, Asisat Oshoala, and Francisca Ordega, Nigeria is targeting a record-extending 10th continental title.<\/p>\n<p>With a mix of experience and fresh talent, the team is determined to make a strong statement in Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Nigerian forward Rinsola Babajide has expressed overwhelming joy after earning her maiden call-up to the Super Falcons\u2019 24-player squad for the 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), in Morocco. Babajide, who will be making her debut in a major senior tournament, shared her excitement on social media, calling it \u201cthe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68688","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\/68688","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68690,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68688\/revisions\/68690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}