{"id":203396,"date":"2025-07-27T21:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/morocco-nigeria-nigeria-produce-stunning-comeback-to-beat-morocco-and-win-10th-wafcon-title\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:23:51","slug":"morocco-nigeria-nigeria-produce-stunning-comeback-to-beat-morocco-and-win-10th-wafcon-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/morocco-nigeria-nigeria-produce-stunning-comeback-to-beat-morocco-and-win-10th-wafcon-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\/Nigeria: Nigeria Produce Stunning Comeback to Beat Morocco and Win 10th Wafcon Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>Nigeria staged an extraordinary second-half comeback to defeat hosts Morocco 3-2 and lift their 10th TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) crown at the Stade Olympique in Rabat on Saturday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Trailing 2-0 at half-time in front of a partisan Moroccan crowd, the Super Falcons showed their pedigree and resilience, clawing their way back into the match with a display of clinical finishing and sheer determination to cement their status as queens of African football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Goals from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507270006.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>Nigeria staged an extraordinary second-half comeback to defeat hosts Morocco 3-2 and lift their 10th TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) crown at the Stade Olympique in Rabat on Saturday night. Trailing 2-0 at half-time in front of a partisan Moroccan crowd, the Super Falcons showed their pedigree and resilience, clawing their way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671006:f14201e9b96f6edf6aec56c4817787fe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[21471,258,256,5065,9733,5609,41526,257,4687,393,14281,254,14843,6675,24869,6660],"class_list":["post-203396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-10th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-comeback","tag-morocco","tag-morocconigeria","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-produce","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stunning","tag-title","tag-wafcon","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671006:f14201e9b96f6edf6aec56c4817787fe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203396","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=203396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}