{"id":196740,"date":"2025-04-25T05:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T03:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-flying-eagles-edge-egypt-in-u-20-afcon-warm-up\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T05:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T03:19:37","slug":"nigeria-egypt-flying-eagles-edge-egypt-in-u-20-afcon-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-flying-eagles-edge-egypt-in-u-20-afcon-warm-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Egypt: Flying Eagles Edge Egypt in U-20 Afcon Warm-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nigeria&#8217;s U-20 national team, the Flying Eagles, defeated their Egyptian counterparts 2-1 in a friendly match on Tuesday in Cairo, ahead of the 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tournament will take place in Egypt from April 27 to May 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Kparobo Arierhi gave Nigeria the lead in the 10th minute after receiving a fine pass from Bidemi Amole and coolly slotting it home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Egypt equalised in the 65th minute through Ahmed Kaabaka, but Nigeria&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504230223.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s U-20 national team, the Flying Eagles, defeated their Egyptian counterparts 2-1 in a friendly match on Tuesday in Cairo, ahead of the 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tournament will take place in Egypt from April 27 to May 18. Kparobo Arierhi gave Nigeria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":196741,"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":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,5232,7126,4697,415,9805,257,12244,254,8350,14004],"class_list":["post-196740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eagles","tag-edge","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-flying","tag-news","tag-nigeriaegypt","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u20","tag-warmup"],"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\/196740","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}