{"id":12126,"date":"2026-11-07T22:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T22:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/you-made-history-ajibade-hails-flamingos-after-world-title-triumph\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T22:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T22:16:58","slug":"you-made-history-ajibade-hails-flamingos-after-world-title-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/you-made-history-ajibade-hails-flamingos-after-world-title-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You Made History \u2013 Ajibade Hails Flamingos After World Title Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Falcons captain Rasheedat Ajibade has congratulated the Flamingos following their historic triumph at the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria defeated Japan 2-1  in Saturday night\u2019s final in Rabat to become the first African nation to win the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Awawu Bashiru opened the scoring for the Flamingos six minutes before half-time with a looping effort before Oluebube Umejiaku doubled Nigeria\u2019s advantage just two minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/fifa-u-17-wwc-flamingos-beat-japan-2-1-to-claim-first-ever-title\/\">FIFA U-17 WWC: Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos Beat Japan 2-1 To Claim First-Ever Title<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japan pulled one back through Fuki Ito 10 minutes from time, but the Nigerian youngsters held firm to secure a historic victory.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the achievement, Ajibade took to social media to shower praise on Akeem Busari\u2019s side, describing their accomplishment as a moment of pride for the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWORLD CHAMPIONS! \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec<br \/>You made history, and you made all of Nigeria proud. I\u2019m so proud of every one of you.The future of Nigerian football is here.Congratulations, Flamingos! \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec,\u201d Ajibade wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Falcons captain Rasheedat Ajibade has congratulated the Flamingos following their historic triumph at the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup. Nigeria defeated Japan 2-1 in Saturday night\u2019s final in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126","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=12126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}