{"id":12081,"date":"2026-11-07T20:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/breaking-nigerias-flamingos-beat-japan-2-1-to-win-first-u-17-womens-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T20:45:48","slug":"breaking-nigerias-flamingos-beat-japan-2-1-to-win-first-u-17-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/breaking-nigerias-flamingos-beat-japan-2-1-to-win-first-u-17-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos beat Japan 2-1 to win first U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Breaking-Nigerias-Flamingos-beat-Japan-2-1-to-win-first-U-17-Womens-World-Cup.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Breaking: Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos beat Japan 2-1 to win first U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Breaking-Nigerias-Flamingos-beat-Japan-2-1-to-win-first-U-17-Womens-World-Cup.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Flamingos-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Flamingos-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Flamingos.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Ayobami Okerinde<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria\u2019s U-17 women\u2019s national team, the Flamingos, have defeated Japan 2-1 to win the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Flamingos secured the historic victory on Saturday at the Mohammed VI Football Complex, Pitch 3, in Rabat, to claim their first title in the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awawu Bashiru opened the scoring for Nigeria in the 39th minute with a long-range effort that slipped through the hands of the Japanese goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria doubled their advantage shortly after the restart, with Oluebube Umejiaku finding the net in the 47th minute to put the Flamingos in control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan fought back and reduced the deficit through Fuki Ito in the 80th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Japanese side pushed for an equaliser, but Nigeria held on to secure the 2-1 victory. The Flamingos also came close to extending their lead late in the game, striking the crossbar from a corner kick.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/breaking-flamingos-beat-japan-2-1-to-win-first-u-17-womens-world-cup\/\">Breaking: Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos beat Japan 2-1 to win first U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">\n<div>Nigeria Sports News &amp; Updates &#8211; Vanguard News<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ayobami Okerinde Nigeria\u2019s U-17 women\u2019s national team, the Flamingos, have defeated Japan 2-1 to win the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco. The Flamingos secured the historic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}