{"id":17016,"date":"2019-04-17T21:16:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17016"},"modified":"2019-04-17T21:16:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:16:40","slug":"u-17-afcon-nigeria-beat-angola-1-0-to-qualify-for-world-cup-african-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17016","title":{"rendered":"U-17 AFCON: Nigeria beat Angola 1-0 to qualify for World Cup, African Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Muhyideen Jimoh (<strong>NAN)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Golden Eaglets of Nigeria on Wednesday defeated their Angolan counterpart 1-0 to qualify for the semi-finals in the ongoing U-17 AFCON in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.<br \/>\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that with the win, Nigeria has also qualified for the FIFA U-17 World Cup slated for Brazil later in the year.<br \/>\nThe Manu Garba tutored Eaglets had earlier beaten host Tanzania 5-4 in a thrilling encounter in the Group A opener.<br \/>\nIn the pulsating game against Angola on Wednesday, Nigeria\u2019s Olakunle Olusegun scored with a well taken penalty in the 21st minute sending the Angolan Keeper Geovani Carvalho the wrong way.<br \/>\nThe Nigerian boys continued to heap pressure on the Angolan defence but were wasteful in front of goal with five attempts on goal out of the seven shots fired.<br \/>\nIn the second half, Angola\u2019s drive to level up was dealt a blow after defender Cabingano saw red card for a second bookable offence, his dangerous lunge on Olusegun earned him a second yellow card.<br \/>\nWith a man advantage the Eaglets grew in confidence but could not convert their chances as the Nigerian side ran away with a slim 1-0 win.<br \/>\nNAN reports that the Golden Eaglets, five time winners of the competition will face Uganda in their final group game on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Muhyideen Jimoh (NAN) The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria on Wednesday defeated their Angolan counterpart 1-0 to qualify for the semi-finals in the ongoing U-17 AFCON in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that with the win, Nigeria has also qualified for the FIFA U-17 World Cup slated for Brazil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5778],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}