{"id":2271,"date":"2026-10-28T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/fifa-u-15-w-cup-festival-future-eagles-thrash-new-caledonia-7-0-to-reach-tier-c-round-of-16\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:02:24","slug":"fifa-u-15-w-cup-festival-future-eagles-thrash-new-caledonia-7-0-to-reach-tier-c-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/fifa-u-15-w-cup-festival-future-eagles-thrash-new-caledonia-7-0-to-reach-tier-c-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA U-15 W\/Cup &amp; Festival: Future Eagles Thrash New Caledonia 7-0 To Reach Tier C Round Of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Future Eagles of Nigeria thrashed New Caledonia 7-0 to reach the Tier C round of 16 at the inaugural FIFA U-15 World Cup and Festival on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It was Nigeria\u2019s biggest win of the tournament and extends their unbeaten run to six games.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Timothy Ijachi was the star with a hat-trick, while Abdulsalam Muhammad grabbed a brace.<\/p>\n<p>The Future Eagles took the lead just 60 seconds through Wisdom Oche before Ijachi netted twice on 12 and 16 minutes to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/fifa-u-15-w-cup-festival-future-eagles-end-group-stage-campaign-with-1-1-draw-against-pakistan\/\">FIFA U-15 W\/Cup &amp; Festival: Future Eagles End Group Stage Campaign With 1-1 Draw Against Pakistan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 21st minute Abdulsalam Muhammad put the Future Eagles 4-0 while Ijachi completed his hat-trick on 35 minutes by getting the fifth goal.<\/p>\n<p>Just four minutes later Abdulsalam Muhammad got the sixth goal while Mayowa Salu added the seventh goal in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The win means the Future Eagles will face the winner of Republic of Benin vs Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the tournament concludes on Friday, 30 October with the Tier finals.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>By James Agberebi <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future Eagles of Nigeria thrashed New Caledonia 7-0 to reach the Tier C round of 16 at the inaugural FIFA U-15 World Cup and Festival on Wednesday morning. It was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","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\/2271","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=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}