{"id":518537,"date":"2025-10-22T02:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/518537\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:44:11","slug":"fifa-u17-womens-world-cup-morocco-2025-flamingos-battle-ready-for-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/518537\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup Morocco 2025: Flamingos Battle-ready For France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bsnsports.com.ng\/public\/images\/news\/2025\/Oct\/11\/68e9b1e923be5.png\" alt=\"FIFA\" u17=\"\" women=\"\" world=\"\" cup=\"\" morocco=\"\" flamingos=\"\" battle-ready=\"\" for=\"\" france=\"\" onerror=\"this.src=\" https:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\" btn-danger p-1\"> Nigeria U-17 women&#8217;s team Flamingos<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup Morocco 2025: Flamingos Battle-ready For France\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Admin\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a painful 4\u20131 defeat to Canada in their opening Group D fixture, Nigeria\u2019s U17 girls find themselves fighting for survival against a confident French side that kicked off their campaign with a strong 4\u20132 win over Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>This fixture is more than just a group match, as there is history and something at stake for the Flamingos. The last time Nigeria met France at this tournament was 13 years ago, in Azerbaijan, where both sides played out a tense 0\u20130 draw in regulation time before France edged Nigeria 5\u20133 on penalties to advance from the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>That memory lingers, and for many, this feels like unfinished business. Nigeria enter tomorrow\u2019s match bottom of the table with zero points and a minus three goal difference, meaning defeat could mathematically end their World Cup journey. At minimum, a draw is essential, but a win would flip the entire narrative heading into the final group match against Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>France play with speed, fluidity and dominant structure. Their 4\u20132 win over Samoa was ruthless. Nigeria showed flashes of brilliance against Canada, scoring once, but defensive lapses haunted them badly.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Bankole Olowookere\u2019s team must correct their transitions, stay compact, and rediscover their mental steel, as this is no longer about tactics alone, but also about character.<\/p>\n<p>At the Football Academy Mohammed VI (Pitch 1), 8pm in Rabat, the Flamingos won\u2019t just be playing France, they\u2019ll be playing for belief, redemption, and survival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria U-17 women&#8217;s team Flamingos \u00a0 FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup Morocco 2025: Flamingos Battle-ready For France\u00a0 By&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[6397,6394,6389,6387,1500,6385,6390,6386,2000,299,6398,36,1501,6392,12,6393,6391,6395,6388,79,6396,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-518537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-about-sports","9":"tag-abuja-sport-news","10":"tag-afcon-2022","11":"tag-basic-sports-in-nigeria","12":"tag-breaking-news","13":"tag-bsn-sport","14":"tag-bsn-sports","15":"tag-contact-us","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-foreign-sport","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latest-sport-news","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nigeria-match","24":"tag-nigeria-sport-news","25":"tag-niyi-busari","26":"tag-sport-news","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-sports-website","29":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115415526056425595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}