{"id":198522,"date":"2025-05-21T06:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nigeria-flying-eagles-beat-egypt-in-shootouts-to-win-fifth-bronze\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:14:43","slug":"egypt-nigeria-flying-eagles-beat-egypt-in-shootouts-to-win-fifth-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nigeria-flying-eagles-beat-egypt-in-shootouts-to-win-fifth-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\/Nigeria: Flying Eagles Beat Egypt in Shootouts to Win Fifth Bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Flying Eagles yesterday won a fifth third-place at the U20 AFCON, when they beat hosts Egypt 4-1 on penalties after scores stood at 1-1 at full time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Two years ago the Junior Eagles trounced Tunisia 4-0 to also record a podium finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Egypt shot ahead after just three minutes through Omar Hassan after they sprung the offside trap of the Flying Eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Nigeria dominated the first half, created the better chances, but failed to put them away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">They were duly rewarded immediately at the restart,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505200520.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>The Flying Eagles yesterday won a fifth third-place at the U20 AFCON, when they beat hosts Egypt 4-1 on penalties after scores stood at 1-1 at full time. Two years ago the Junior Eagles trounced Tunisia 4-0 to also record a podium finish. Egypt shot ahead after just three minutes through Omar Hassan after they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198523,"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":[258,256,5065,6632,5232,4697,415,17201,9805,257,41277,254,6660],"class_list":["post-198522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-bronze","tag-eagles","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptnigeria","tag-flying","tag-news","tag-shootouts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-win"],"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\/198522","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=198522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}