{"id":77725,"date":"2025-10-29T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77725"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:51:12","slug":"ajibade-super-falcons-ready-to-compete-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/29\/ajibade-super-falcons-ready-to-compete-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajibade: Super Falcons Ready to Compete Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Super Falcons forward Rasheedat Ajibade says the team is determined to move beyond continental dominance and become global contenders in women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n<p>Ajibade, speaking after Nigeria\u2019s qualification for the 2026 WAFCON with a 3-1 aggregate win over Benin Republic, said the players are united in their ambition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t just want to be African champions anymore; we want to be global contenders,\u201d she said. \u201cWe know we have the quality and talent to compete with the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that the 2026 WAFCON, also serving as qualifiers for the 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup is vital for the team to defend their title and showcase improvement.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Falcons, Africa\u2019s most successful women\u2019s team with 10 WAFCON titles, have featured in every FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup, reaching the Round of 16 in the last edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Super Falcons forward Rasheedat Ajibade says the team is determined to move beyond continental dominance and become global contenders in women\u2019s football. Ajibade, speaking after Nigeria\u2019s qualification for the 2026 WAFCON with a 3-1 aggregate win over Benin Republic, said the players are united in their ambition. \u201cWe don\u2019t just want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77725","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\/77725","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=77725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77727,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77725\/revisions\/77727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}