{"id":70868,"date":"2025-07-17T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70868"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:17:26","slug":"junior-dtigress-exit-fiba-u19-world-cup-after-hungary-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/17\/junior-dtigress-exit-fiba-u19-world-cup-after-hungary-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior D&#8217;Tigress Exit FIBA U19 World Cup After Hungary Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Junior D&#8217;Tigress have crashed out of the FIBA U19 Women&#8217;s World Cup in Brno, Czech Republic, after a 77-51 loss to Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>They now move to the classification round to battle for places 9\u201316.<\/p>\n<p>The team earlier lost to Portugal (79-61) and Canada (113-42), but recorded a historic first-ever World Cup win by defeating China 93-88 in their opener.<\/p>\n<p>Their exit has been linked to poor shooting, weak defense, and costly turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>Reports also cite late funding from the National Sports Commission as a setback to the team\u2019s preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Nigeria&#8217;s Junior D&#8217;Tigress have crashed out of the FIBA U19 Women&#8217;s World Cup in Brno, Czech Republic, after a 77-51 loss to Hungary. They now move to the classification round to battle for places 9\u201316. The team earlier lost to Portugal (79-61) and Canada (113-42), but recorded a historic first-ever World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70868","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=70868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70872,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70868\/revisions\/70872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}