{"id":232961,"date":"2026-05-11T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/uganda-ghana-queen-cranes-fall-short-against-ghana-in-u-20-womens-world-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:30:06","slug":"uganda-ghana-queen-cranes-fall-short-against-ghana-in-u-20-womens-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/uganda-ghana-queen-cranes-fall-short-against-ghana-in-u-20-womens-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\/Ghana: Queen Cranes Fall Short Against Ghana in U-20 Women&#8217;s World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Uganda&#8217;s U-20 women national team, the Queen Cranes, saw their FIFA U-20 Women&#8217;s World Cup dream come to an end after a 1-1 draw with Ghana in the return leg of the final qualification round at FUFA Stadium Kadiba on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Despite a determined performance in front of home supporters, Uganda exited the qualifiers 3-2 on aggregate after a tightly contested two-legged tie against the West African giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Queen Cranes made a strong start, stunning Ghana in the seventh minute when Sylvia Kabene&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605110724.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 national team, the Queen Cranes, saw their FIFA U-20 Women&#8217;s World Cup dream come to an end after a 1-1 draw with Ghana in the return leg of the final qualification round at FUFA Stadium Kadiba on Saturday. Despite a determined performance in front of home supporters, Uganda exited the qualifiers 3-2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232962,"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":[258,256,11165,6674,9140,4508,4509,257,7318,14063,5196,254,8350,14557,6460,5093],"class_list":["post-232961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cranes","tag-cup","tag-fall","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-queen","tag-short","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u20","tag-ugandaghana","tag-womens","tag-world"],"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\/232961","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=232961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}