{"id":12377,"date":"2026-11-08T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/what-fifa-president-said-about-nigerias-flamingos-after-u-17-world-cup-triumph\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T11:16:00","slug":"what-fifa-president-said-about-nigerias-flamingos-after-u-17-world-cup-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/what-fifa-president-said-about-nigerias-flamingos-after-u-17-world-cup-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"What FIFA president said about Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos after U-17 World Cup triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/What-FIFA-president-said-about-Nigerias-Flamingos-after-U-17-World-Cup-triumph.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"What FIFA president said about Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos after U-17 World Cup triumph\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/What-FIFA-president-said-about-Nigerias-Flamingos-after-U-17-World-Cup-triumph.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/FIFA-1-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/FIFA-1-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/FIFA-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FIFA President Gianni Infantino has congratulated Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos following their historic victory at the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Flamingos made history on Saturday night after defeating Japan\u2019s Little Nadeshiko 2-1 in the final at Pitch 3 of the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goals from Awawu Bashiru and Oluebube Umejiaku gave Nigeria a 2-0 lead before Fuki Ito scored a late consolation goal for Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reacting to the victory, Infantino praised the Nigerian team for becoming the first African nation to win the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup, describing their achievement as well deserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\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 he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FIFA president also congratulated Japan for finishing as runners-up and DPR Korea, who claimed third place in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further commended Morocco for successfully hosting the competition, which brought together some of the world\u2019s best emerging female football talents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria\u2019s victory marks the country\u2019s first title at the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup, having previously finished third at the 2022 edition in India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/what-fifa-president-said-about-nigerias-flamingos-after-u-17-world-cup-triumph\/\">What FIFA president said about Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos after U-17 World Cup triumph<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Gianni Infantino has congratulated Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos following their historic victory at the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco. The Flamingos made history on Saturday night after&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377","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=12377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}