{"id":69250,"date":"2025-06-28T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69250"},"modified":"2025-06-28T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:34:21","slug":"rivers-angels-claim-10th-president-federation-cup-title-after-stunning-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/28\/rivers-angels-claim-10th-president-federation-cup-title-after-stunning-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Angels Claim 10th President Federation Cup Title After Stunning Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rivers Angels have clinched their 10th President Federation Cup title after staging a dramatic comeback and defeating Nasarawa Amazons 4-2 on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Despite dominating early proceedings, the Port Harcourt-based team fell behind just seven minutes into the match when Rocket Shockwave capitalized on a defensive error to put the Amazons ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Shockwave struck again ten minutes later, giving the Lafia side a comfortable 2\u20130 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers Angels came out determined in the second half, and their persistence paid off when Taiwo Ajibade pulled one back.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, former Flamingos midfielder Taiwo Afolabi lobbed in the equalizer to level the score.<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing penalty shootout, Nasarawa Amazons missed their opening spot-kick through Esther Adesoji.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers Angels then converted three straight penalties, and goalkeeper Anderline Mgbechi made a crucial save before stepping up to score the winning goal herself.<\/p>\n<p>The victory marks another historic moment for Rivers Angels, solidifying their status as one of Nigeria\u2019s most successful women\u2019s football clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; Rivers Angels have clinched their 10th President Federation Cup title after staging a dramatic comeback and defeating Nasarawa Amazons 4-2 on penalties. Despite dominating early proceedings, the Port Harcourt-based team fell behind just seven minutes into the match when Rocket Shockwave capitalized on a defensive error to put the Amazons ahead. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69250","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\/69250","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=69250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69252,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69250\/revisions\/69252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}