{"id":69942,"date":"2025-07-08T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69942"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:32:11","slug":"falcons-stay-focused-after-tunisia-win-coach-madugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/08\/falcons-stay-focused-after-tunisia-win-coach-madugu\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Stay Focused After Tunisia Win -Coach Madugu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Super Falcons head coach, Justin Madugu, says the team remains focused despite their emphatic victory over Tunisia in a recent international friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Madugu praised the players for their discipline and teamwork but cautioned against complacency, stressing that tougher challenges lie ahead, especially with upcoming qualifiers for the Africa Women\u2019s Cup of Nations (AWCON), and the 2027 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players did well and followed instructions, but we won\u2019t let this win make us complacent. We must keep improving,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Madugu highlighted the need to improve in finishing and defensive concentration while urging continued support from fans, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The win serves as a morale boost for the Falcons, who remain unbeaten and among Africa\u2019s top-ranked women\u2019s teams as they prepare for future tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith Super Falcons head coach, Justin Madugu, says the team remains focused despite their emphatic victory over Tunisia in a recent international friendly. Speaking after the match, Madugu praised the players for their discipline and teamwork but cautioned against complacency, stressing that tougher challenges lie ahead, especially with upcoming qualifiers for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-69942","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\/69942","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=69942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69944,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69942\/revisions\/69944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}