{"id":77189,"date":"2025-10-23T09:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77189"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:43:13","slug":"france-coach-hails-brave-flamingos-after-slim-u-17-wwc-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/france-coach-hails-brave-flamingos-after-slim-u-17-wwc-win\/","title":{"rendered":"France Coach Hails \u2018Brave\u2019 Flamingos After Slim U-17 WWC Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>France U-17 Women\u2019s head coach, Mickael Ferreira, has praised Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos after his team\u2019s narrow 1-0 victory in their second group game at the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Maissa Fathallah scored the decisive goal nine minutes from time to secure France\u2019s qualification for the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>Ferreira commended the Nigerian side for their strong performance, describing them as disciplined and courageous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew it would be a tough match. This Nigerian team is very united, very brave,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had to rise to that challenge, and the girls responded really well. I\u2019m very happy with what they produced.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; France U-17 Women\u2019s head coach, Mickael Ferreira, has praised Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos after his team\u2019s narrow 1-0 victory in their second group game at the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup on Wednesday night. Maissa Fathallah scored the decisive goal nine minutes from time to secure France\u2019s qualification for the knockout stage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77189","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\/77189","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=77189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77191,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77189\/revisions\/77191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}