{"id":9583,"date":"2026-11-05T06:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T06:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/flamingos-beat-brazil-to-reach-first-u17-women-world-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T06:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T06:01:44","slug":"flamingos-beat-brazil-to-reach-first-u17-women-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/flamingos-beat-brazil-to-reach-first-u17-women-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingos beat Brazil to reach first U17 Women World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/flamingoss-1024x455.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Flamingos beat Brazil to reach first U17 Women World Cup final\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/flamingoss-1024x455.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/flamingoss-300x133.webp 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/flamingoss-768x341.webp 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/flamingoss-1536x683.webp 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/flamingoss.webp 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria\u2019s U17 women\u2019s team, the Flamingos, have reached the final of the FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup for the first time in history after defeating Brazil 3-1 in the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Flamingos secured the historic victory with goals from Queen Joseph and Awawu Bashiru, who scored twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joseph opened the scoring in the 56th minute before Bashiru extended Nigeria\u2019s lead in the 71st minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bashiru completed her brace in the 80th minute to seal Nigeria\u2019s 3-1 victory and book their place in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The achievement marks a major milestone for the Nigerian side, who won bronze at the 2022 edition of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Flamingos will now face Japan in the final as they seek to win their first-ever FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup title.<\/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\/breaking-flamingos-beat-brazil-to-reach-first-u17-women-world-cup-final\/\">Flamingos beat Brazil to reach first U17 Women World Cup final<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">\n<div>Nigeria Sports News &amp; Updates &#8211; Vanguard News<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s U17 women\u2019s team, the Flamingos, have reached the final of the FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup for the first time in history after defeating Brazil 3-1 in the semi-final.&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-9583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583","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=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}