{"id":12270,"date":"2026-11-08T07:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/fifa-u-17-wwc-youve-inspired-generations-of-young-girls-kanu-hails-flamingos-after-world-cup-success\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T07:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T07:01:18","slug":"fifa-u-17-wwc-youve-inspired-generations-of-young-girls-kanu-hails-flamingos-after-world-cup-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/fifa-u-17-wwc-youve-inspired-generations-of-young-girls-kanu-hails-flamingos-after-world-cup-success\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA U-17 WWC: You\u2019ve Inspired Generations Of Young Girls \u2014 Kanu Hails Flamingos After World Cup Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria football legend Nwankwo Kanu has hailed the Flamingos for their 2026 FIFA U-17 women\u2019s World Cup success, describing it as an inspiration to generations of young girls.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting after the Flamingos defeated Japan 2-1 in the final on Saturday, Kanu wrote on his X handle:KAN U believe it! \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udfc6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory made! Congratulations to our incredible Flamingos on becoming the first Nigerian U-17 women\u2019s team to win the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup. What an extraordinary achievement! <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have made Nigeria proud, inspired a generation of young girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Awawu Bashiru and Oluebube Umejiaku secured the hard fought win for the Flamingos, who are now the first African side to be crowned U-17 world champions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria football legend Nwankwo Kanu has hailed the Flamingos for their 2026 FIFA U-17 women\u2019s World Cup success, describing it as an inspiration to generations of young girls. Reacting after&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12270","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\/12270","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=12270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}