{"id":9353,"date":"2026-11-04T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/2026-u-17-wwc-caf-hails-flamingos-historic-final-feat\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:01:00","slug":"2026-u-17-wwc-caf-hails-flamingos-historic-final-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/2026-u-17-wwc-caf-hails-flamingos-historic-final-feat\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 U-17 WWC: CAF Hails Flamingos\u2019 Historic Final Feat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football, CAF,  has congratulated Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos following their impressive 3-1 victory over Brazil to secure a historic place in the final of the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian youngsters produced a commanding performance on Wednesday night to reach the final of the competition for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Joseph opened the scoring with a close-range finish four minutes before the hour mark, giving the Flamingos a deserved lead.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Awawu Bashiru then stole the spotlight with two outstanding goals in the 71st and 80th minutes to put Nigeria firmly in control and leave Brazil with an uphill task.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/fifa-u-17-wwc-flamingos-defeat-brazil-3-1-to-reach-first-ever-final\/\">FIFA U-17 WWC: Flamingos Defeat Brazil 3-1 To Reach First-Ever Final<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greise Kelly pulled one back for the South Americans with a late header, but her effort proved insufficient to prevent Nigeria from securing a memorable victory.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the historic achievement, CAF took to its official X account to celebrate the Flamingos\u2019 qualification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAFRICA, MAKE SOME NOISE! THE FLAMINGOS ARE WORLD CUP FINALISTS! \ud83e\udd2f\ud83d\udc9a,\u201d the continental football governing body posted.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will now turn their attention to Saturday\u2019s final, where they will face Japan at Pitch 3 of the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Rabat, Morocco, as they look to make history by lifting the trophy.<\/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>The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has congratulated Nigeria\u2019s Flamingos following their impressive 3-1 victory over Brazil to secure a historic place in the final of the 2026 FIFA U-17&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-9353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353","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=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}