{"id":232464,"date":"2026-05-06T04:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-uganda-queen-cranes-eye-comeback-after-late-heartbreak-in-accra\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:17:55","slug":"ghana-uganda-queen-cranes-eye-comeback-after-late-heartbreak-in-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-uganda-queen-cranes-eye-comeback-after-late-heartbreak-in-accra\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Uganda: Queen Cranes Eye Comeback After Late Heartbreak in Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Uganda&#8217;s U-20 women&#8217;s side, the Queen Cranes, will head into the decisive second leg of their Fifa U-20 Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifier still firmly in contention, despite falling 2-1 to Ghana in Accra on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The first leg of the final qualifying round, played at Accra Sports Stadium, saw Uganda pick up a crucial away goal, one that could prove decisive when the tie shifts to Kampala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">It was Uganda who struck first, with Agnes Nabukenya calmly slotting home in the 32nd minute after a well&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605050731.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s U-20 women&#8217;s side, the Queen Cranes, will head into the decisive second leg of their Fifa U-20 Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifier still firmly in contention, despite falling 2-1 to Ghana in Accra on Sunday night. The first leg of the final qualifying round, played at Accra Sports Stadium, saw Uganda pick up a crucial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232465,"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":[4507],"tags":[4512,258,256,9733,11165,9381,4509,54341,21998,8262,257,14063,254],"class_list":["post-232464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-comeback","tag-cranes","tag-eye","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanauganda","tag-heartbreak","tag-late","tag-news","tag-queen","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/232464","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=232464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}