{"id":18250,"date":"2024-04-06T07:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T07:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=18250"},"modified":"2024-04-06T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T07:59:50","slug":"super-falcons-edge-south-africa-1-0-in-olympic-qualifier-first-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=18250","title":{"rendered":"Super Falcons Edge South Africa 1-0 In Olympic Qualifier First Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Captain Rasheed Ajibade&#8217;s goal in the 43rd minute secured a narrow 1-0 victory for the Super Falcons of Nigeria against their continental rivals, South Africa, in the first leg of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games football event qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The match took place at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Under the guidance of Randy Waldrum, the Nigerian team maintained their slim lead throughout the second half despite South Africa&#8217;s attempts to equalize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Falcons will now need to defend their advantage in the second leg scheduled for April 9 in Pretoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The victor of the tie will secure qualification for the Olympic Games in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Rasheed Ajibade&#8217;s goal in the 43rd minute secured a narrow 1-0 victory for the Super Falcons of Nigeria against their continental rivals, South Africa, in the first leg of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games football event qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8693,8692,345,1920],"class_list":["post-18250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-first-leg","tag-olympic-qualifier","tag-south-africa","tag-super-falcons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250"}],"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=18250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18251,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions\/18251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}