{"id":231477,"date":"2022-07-15T19:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/sports-minister-celebrates-super-falcons-world-cup-ticket-urges-team-to-go-for-10th-title?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-07-15T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:26:10","slug":"sports-minister-celebrates-super-falcons-world-cup-ticket-urges-team-to-go-for-10th-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sports-minister-celebrates-super-falcons-world-cup-ticket-urges-team-to-go-for-10th-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister Celebrates Super Falcons\u2019 World Cup Ticket, Urges Team to Go for 10th Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/be6e5515094d6ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/be6e5515094d6ec\" alt=\"Federal Ministry of Youth &amp; Sports Development, Nigeria\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/be6e5515094d6ec\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=208433&amp;press_source=Federal Ministry of Youth &amp; Sports Development, Nigeria\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare has congratulated Nigeria&rsquo;s senior women national football team, the Super Falcons for picking a ticket to next year&rsquo;s FIFA Women World Cup finals in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons picked one of the four automatic World Cup tickets available at the African Women Cup of Nations tournament by defeating bitter rivals Cameroon 1-0 in the quarterfinals decided on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Minister Sunday Dare while celebrating the feat, urged the team to now go all out and &lsquo;add the icing to the cake&rsquo; by winning the tournament for the 10th time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You(Super Falcons) have never missed out of any FIFA Women World Cup finals. I celebrate you for keeping to your high standards by qualifying for next year&rsquo;s event in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is heartwarming and you have made yourselves and Nigerians proud. I congratulate you, your coaches, the NFF and all Nigerians who have shown good will and support to the team.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While celebrating this world cup ticket, let me urge to do a little more. Win your next game and the one after it and you will be the queens of African football for the tenth time,&rdquo; Dare said.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for the Super Falcons will be the hosts, Morocco in the semifinals of the competition.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Federal Ministry of Youth &amp; Sports Development, Nigeria.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare has congratulated Nigeria&rsquo;s senior women national football team, the Super Falcons for picking a ticket to next year&rsquo;s FIFA Women World Cup finals in Australia and New Zealand. The Falcons picked one of the four automatic World Cup tickets available at the African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-231477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sports-minister-celebrates-super-falcons-world-cup-ticket-urges-team-to-go-for-10th-title.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}