{"id":231768,"date":"2026-04-29T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nigeria-olympics-qualifier-super-falcons-brace-for-tough-draw-in-cairo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:22:41","slug":"egypt-nigeria-olympics-qualifier-super-falcons-brace-for-tough-draw-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nigeria-olympics-qualifier-super-falcons-brace-for-tough-draw-in-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\/Nigeria: Olympics Qualifier &#8211; Super Falcons Brace for Tough Draw in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">CAF has designed a five-round qualification structure, one that places a premium on consistency and resilience. Unlike group-stage formats, this pathway offers little room for recovery, every round is a knockout hurdle<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nigeria&#8217;s women&#8217;s national team, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thenff.com\/category\/super-falcons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Falcons<\/a><\/strong>, will today (Wednesday) take the first step toward the 2028 Summer Olympics as the Confederation of African Football conducts the official draw for the women&#8217;s qualifying tournament in Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The ceremony, scheduled for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604290251.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>CAF has designed a five-round qualification structure, one that places a premium on consistency and resilience. Unlike group-stage formats, this pathway offers little room for recovery, every round is a knockout hurdle Nigeria&#8217;s women&#8217;s national team, the Super Falcons, will today (Wednesday) take the first step toward the 2028 Summer Olympics as the Confederation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":231769,"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":[258,256,11945,341,6981,415,17201,18943,257,12022,8496,254,9095,5039],"class_list":["post-231768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brace","tag-cairo","tag-draw","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptnigeria","tag-falcons","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-tough"],"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\/231768","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=231768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}