{"id":183476,"date":"2024-10-28T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-flying-eagles-qualify-for-wafu-b-u20-final-secure-afcon-ticket\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T11:04:08","slug":"nigerias-flying-eagles-qualify-for-wafu-b-u20-final-secure-afcon-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-flying-eagles-qualify-for-wafu-b-u20-final-secure-afcon-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Flying Eagles Qualify for Wafu B U20 Final, Secure Afcon Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Flying Eagles will face Ghana in the final on Wednesday, aiming to defend their title and make Nigeria proud<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nigeria&#8217;s U20 team, the Flying Eagles, staged another thrilling comeback to defeat Niger Republic 3-1 at the Stade de Kegue in Lom\u00e9 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The victory helped them secure a spot in the WAFU B U20 Championship final and a ticket to the 2025 Africa U20 Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The victory also marked a crucial step in the Flying Eagles&#8217; title defence, which they won in Niamey two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410280215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flying Eagles will face Ghana in the final on Wednesday, aiming to defend their title and make Nigeria proud Nigeria&#8217;s U20 team, the Flying Eagles, staged another thrilling comeback to defeat Niger Republic 3-1 at the Stade de Kegue in Lom\u00e9 on Sunday. The victory helped them secure a spot in the WAFU B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[9488,258,256,5232,6038,9805,257,393,5761,7867,7904,254,8346,8350,6964],"class_list":["post-183476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eagles","tag-final","tag-flying","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-qualify","tag-secure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ticket","tag-u20","tag-wafu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}