{"id":77377,"date":"2025-10-24T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77377"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:23:08","slug":"wafcon-qualifiers-madugu-cautions-falcons-against-underrating-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/24\/wafcon-qualifiers-madugu-cautions-falcons-against-underrating-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFCON Qualifiers: Madugu Cautions Falcons Against Underrating Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/p>\n<p>Super Falcons head coach, Justin Madugu, has cautioned his players against underrating the Amazons of Benin Republic as both sides clash today in the first leg of the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers at the Stade de Kegue, Lome.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference, Madugu said the team\u2019s focus is total victory but warned against complacency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know this qualifier leads to the WAFCON, and from there to the World Cup. There\u2019s no room for taking chances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged his team to look beyond past achievements and stay focused on the task ahead. \u201cIt\u2019s a new phase for us. Benin earned their place by defeating other teams, so they deserve respect,\u201d Madugu added.<\/p>\n<p>The return leg holds next Tuesday at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Super Falcons head coach, Justin Madugu, has cautioned his players against underrating the Amazons of Benin Republic as both sides clash today in the first leg of the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers at the Stade de Kegue, Lome. Speaking at a press conference, Madugu said the team\u2019s focus is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":77378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77377","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\/77377","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=77377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77379,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77377\/revisions\/77379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}