{"id":2058,"date":"2014-02-21T07:15:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2014-02-21T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T07:15:17","slug":"flamingoes-to-play-belgium-on-their-way-to-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/flamingoes-to-play-belgium-on-their-way-to-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingoes To Play Belgium On Their Way To Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s U-17 national women\u2019s team, Flamingoes will depart the country for a training tour in Faro, Portugal ahead of the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Costa Rica\u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation made up of 25 players and 9 officials will leave for Portugal from Abuja aboard Lufthansa Airline for a 19 days training camp at the Browns sport\u00a0 and leisure Club in Faro.<\/p>\n<p>The team will engage the Belgium U-17 national team, for a friendly match on March 4, 2014 in Brussels\u00a0 among other games as lined up for them by the Nigerian Football Federation(NFF).<\/p>\n<p>The team will return to Faro\u00a0 from Brussels and then jet out to Madrid, Spain en route San Jose, the Capital of Costa Rica on march 12, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Flamingoes coached by Bala Nkiyu will play their first game of the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup on March 12 against China.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is drawn in Group D with Mexico, Colombia, and China Peoples Republic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s U-17 national women\u2019s team, Flamingoes will depart the country for a training tour in Faro, Portugal ahead of the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Costa Rica\u00a0 \u00a0. The delegation made up of 25 players and 9 officials will leave for Portugal from Abuja aboard Lufthansa Airline for a 19 days training camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}