{"id":193822,"date":"2025-03-18T03:51:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T01:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-we-decided-to-make-nigeria-proud-coach-reflects-on-u-17-womens-world-cup-qualifying-journey\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T03:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T01:51:48","slug":"nigeria-we-decided-to-make-nigeria-proud-coach-reflects-on-u-17-womens-world-cup-qualifying-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-we-decided-to-make-nigeria-proud-coach-reflects-on-u-17-womens-world-cup-qualifying-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: &#8216;We Decided to Make Nigeria Proud&#8217; &#8211; Coach Reflects On U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup Qualifying Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">From handling fierce rivalries to inspiring young players, Olowookere shares the secrets behind the team&#8217;s impressive performances and unwavering motivation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The road to the U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup is never easy, but for Nigeria&#8217;s Flamingos, it has been a path marked by determination, discipline and a deep sense of pride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Under the guidance of Coach Bankole Olowookere, the team has showcased resilience and brilliance in equal measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">After a commanding 5-1 aggregate win over arch-rivals South&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503170565.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>From handling fierce rivalries to inspiring young players, Olowookere shares the secrets behind the team&#8217;s impressive performances and unwavering motivation. The road to the U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup is never easy, but for Nigeria&#8217;s Flamingos, it has been a path marked by determination, discipline and a deep sense of pride. Under the guidance of Coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7346,6674,13355,7369,257,4687,393,10806,9834,16974,254,9489,6460,5093],"class_list":["post-193822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coach","tag-cup","tag-decided","tag-journey","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-proud","tag-qualifying","tag-reflects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u17","tag-womens","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193822","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=193822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}