{"id":187147,"date":"2024-12-23T12:54:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-ghana-ghanas-black-maidens-edge-nigerias-flamingos-to-claim-maiden-wafu-u17-girls-cup\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T12:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:54:46","slug":"nigeria-ghana-ghanas-black-maidens-edge-nigerias-flamingos-to-claim-maiden-wafu-u17-girls-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-ghana-ghanas-black-maidens-edge-nigerias-flamingos-to-claim-maiden-wafu-u17-girls-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Ghana: Ghana&#8217;s Black Maidens Edge Nigeria&#8217;s Flamingos to Claim Maiden Wafu U17 Girls&#8217; Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Despite the spirited comeback, the Flamingos were unable to outlast the Black Maidens in the shootout, as the hosts held their nerve to secure a historic victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanafa.org\/category\/black-maidens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana&#8217;s Black Maidens<\/a><\/strong> emerged victorious in a thrilling penalty shootout against Nigeria&#8217;s Flamingos to win the inaugural WAFU U17 Girls&#8217; Cup on Sunday at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The dramatic encounter ended 5-4 on penalties after both teams played out a pulsating 2-2 draw in regulation time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Flamingos,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412230168.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the spirited comeback, the Flamingos were unable to outlast the Black Maidens in the shootout, as the hosts held their nerve to secure a historic victory. Ghana&#8217;s Black Maidens emerged victorious in a thrilling penalty shootout against Nigeria&#8217;s Flamingos to win the inaugural WAFU U17 Girls&#8217; Cup on Sunday at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187148,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8561,8667,6674,7126,42100,4509,8226,7010,6965,33244,257,5761,14386,254,9489,6964],"class_list":["post-187147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-black","tag-claim","tag-cup","tag-edge","tag-flamingos","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-girls","tag-maiden","tag-maidens","tag-news","tag-nigerias","tag-nigeriaghana","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u17","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\/187147","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=187147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}