{"id":16392,"date":"2023-10-31T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16392"},"modified":"2023-10-31T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:00:23","slug":"olympics-qualifiers-super-falcons-trounce-ethiopia-to-reach-next-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16392","title":{"rendered":"Olympics Qualifiers: Super Falcons Trounce Ethiopia To Reach Next Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Super Eagles of Nigeria have advanced to the third round of qualifiers for the women\u2019s football event at the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Nigeria thrashed the Ethiopians 5-1 aggregate in the second round of qualifiers for the quadrennial Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The Falcons were held to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/super-falcons-settle-for-draw-against-ethiopia-in-olympics-qualifier\/amp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s1\">1-1 draw<\/span><\/a> at the Abebe Bikila Stadium, Addis Ababa, last week, but they put four past Ethiopia at the Moshood Abiola stadium on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">A brace from Raheedat Ajibade was complemented by goals from Asisat Oshoala and Uchenna Kanu to seal an emphatic victory for the Falcons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Kanu got the opener for Nigeria on the stroke halftime when she placed the ball home after a composed, solo build-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Ajibade cushioned the lead shortly after the restart, tapping the ball into the net from close range after a brief spell of brilliance from Oshoala set her up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Oshoala then got a goal for her effort \u2014 a powerful header off a pinpoint cross from Kanu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Ajibade capped up the victory with her second goal of the game with another tap-in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Nigeria will face the winner of the tie between Cameroon and Uganda in the next round of qualifiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Only two teams will represent Africa at the 2024 Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The 2024 Olympics is billed to take place in Paris, France, from July 26 to August 11, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The Falcons played at the Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Eagles of Nigeria have advanced to the third round of qualifiers for the women\u2019s football event at the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7964,7963,1920],"class_list":["post-16392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ethiopia","tag-olympics-qualifiers","tag-super-falcons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16394,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392\/revisions\/16394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}