{"id":70970,"date":"2025-07-18T23:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70970"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:50:55","slug":"wafcon-2024-super-falcons-cruise-into-semi-finals-with-5-0-win-over-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/18\/wafcon-2024-super-falcons-cruise-into-semi-finals-with-5-0-win-over-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFCON 2024: Super Falcons Cruise into Semi-Finals with 5-0 Win Over Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons have stormed into the semi-finals of the 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), with a commanding 5-0 victory over Zambia in Casablanca.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons dominated from start to finish, maintaining their unbeaten record and extending their clean sheet streak.<\/p>\n<p>The win marks their 13th semi-final appearance in the tournament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Zambia\u2019s top forwards, Racheal Kundananji and Barbra Banda, were effectively shut down by Nigeria\u2019s solid defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons will face the winner of the South Africa vs. Senegal clash in the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons have stormed into the semi-finals of the 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), with a commanding 5-0 victory over Zambia in Casablanca. The Falcons dominated from start to finish, maintaining their unbeaten record and extending their clean sheet streak. The win marks their 13th semi-final appearance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70970","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\/70970","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=70970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70972,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70970\/revisions\/70972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}