{"id":12327,"date":"2026-11-08T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T09:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/2026-u-17-wwc-infantino-applauds-flamingos-title-triumph\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T09:45:54","slug":"2026-u-17-wwc-infantino-applauds-flamingos-title-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/2026-u-17-wwc-infantino-applauds-flamingos-title-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 U-17 WWC: Infantino Applauds Flamingos\u2019 Title Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Gianni Infantino has showered praise on Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos following their historic victory at the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The Flamingos secured the championship after overcoming Japan\u2019s Little Nadeshiko 2-1 in Saturday\u2019s final at the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria took control of the encounter through goals from Awawu Bashiru and Oluebube Umejiaku, establishing a 2-0 lead before Fuki Ito reduced the deficit for Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the triumph, Infantino congratulated the Nigerian team for making history as the first African nation to win the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/fifa-u-17-wwc-youve-inspired-generations-of-young-girls-kanu-hails-flamingos-after-world-cup-success\/\">FIFA U-17 WWC: You\u2019ve Inspired Generations Of Young Girls  \u2014 Kanu Hails Flamingos After World Cup Success<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He described the victory as well deserved and commended the players for their outstanding performance throughout the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Nigeria, world champion U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup of FIFA here in Rabat. First African team to ever win a (FIFA) Women\u2019s U-17 World Cup \u2014 so many congratulations to Nigeria. Well deserved in the final,\u201d Infantino stated.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA chief also praised Japan for their impressive campaign, congratulating the team on winning the silver medal, while extending recognition to DPR Korea for claiming bronze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Japan as well, great tournament, silver medal. And DPR Korea, bronze medalists at this beautiful (FIFA) U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Gianni Infantino has showered praise on Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos following their historic victory at the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco. The Flamingos secured the championship after&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12327","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\/12327","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=12327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}