{"id":2878,"date":"2014-03-20T05:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T05:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2014-03-20T05:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T05:23:58","slug":"nigerias-flamingoes-hit-world-cup-qfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/nigerias-flamingoes-hit-world-cup-qfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Flamingoes Hit World Cup Q\/Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria reached the quarterfinal of the U17 Women\u2019s World Cup after they came from behind to beat Colombia 2-1 in a group game early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will early Monday morning battle Mexico, who remain top of Group D after they pounded China 4-0, \u00a0to determine the overall group winner.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia stunned the Flamingoes with a third minute goal courtesy of a looped header by Angie Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria drew level midway through the first half through Joy Bokiri, whose curled free kick from the edge of the box sailed into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Before the hour, Uchenna Kanu produced the winner for Nigeria with a header from a corner.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria then had chances to increase their lead but were either denied by the post or the Colombia goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria reached the quarterfinal of the U17 Women\u2019s World Cup after they came from behind to beat Colombia 2-1 in a group game early Thursday morning. Nigeria will early Monday morning battle Mexico, who remain top of Group D after they pounded China 4-0, \u00a0to determine the overall group winner. Colombia stunned the Flamingoes with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/2878"}],"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=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}