{"id":13170,"date":"2025-10-21T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/nigerias-u17-womens-team-arrive-in-morocco-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:14","slug":"nigerias-u17-womens-team-arrive-in-morocco-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigerias-u17-womens-team-arrive-in-morocco-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s U17 women\u2019s team arrive in Morocco ahead of FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Under-17 women\u2019s national football team, the Flamingos, have touched down in Casablanca as they ramp up preparations for next month\u2019s FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The team and their officials arrived after a smooth four-hour and 20-minute flight from Abuja and are now based at the Ibis Hotel in Casablanca. Coach Bankole Olowookere\u2019s squad is scheduled for a light training session later this evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of their build-up, the Flamingos will play two friendly matches, against New Zealand on Friday and Paraguay next Tuesday, ahead of their Group C campaign. Nigeria will face France, Canada, and Samoa in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The team is looking to build momentum and fine-tune their strategies ahead of the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13171,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13170","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Nigeria\u2019s Under-17 women\u2019s national football team, the Flamingos, have touched down in Casablanca as they ramp up preparations for next month\u2019s FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup||Nigeria\u2019s Under-17 women\u2019s national football team, the Flamingos, have touched down in Casablanca as they ramp up preparations for next month\u2019s FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup","published_date":"2025-10-21 14:26:47||2025-10-21 14:26:47","news_description":"Nigeria\u2019s Under-17 women\u2019s national football team, the Flamingos, have touched down in Casablanca as they ramp up preparations for next month\u2019s FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup||Nigeria\u2019s Under-17 women\u2019s national football team, the Flamingos, have touched down in Casablanca as they ramp up preparations for next month\u2019s FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18417,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13170\/revisions\/18417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}