{"id":254841,"date":"2016-10-04T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254841"},"modified":"2016-10-04T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:30:03","slug":"u-17-womens-world-cup-black-maidens-claim-victory-against-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254841","title":{"rendered":"U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup: Black Maidens claim victory against USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana came from a goal down to win by 2 goals to 1 in its second group D match against the United States of America in the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-254848\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MAidens.jpg\" alt=\"maidens\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Black Maidens in their previous game suffered a humiliating 5-0 defeat to their Japanese counterparts at the Prince Mohammed International Stadium in Zarqa, Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>The USA drew first blood through its striker, Frankie Tagliaferri in the 5th minute.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-254849\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Maidens1.jpg\" alt=\"maidens1\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Maidens however came back from the first half break to equalize in the 63rd minute through Gifty Acheampong.<\/p>\n<p>With the score on equal pegging, Ghana strived to keep possession of the ball in what appeared to be a more competitive second half.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-254849\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Maidens1.jpg\" alt=\"maidens1\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Maidens however managed to pull another\u00a0goal through Sandra Owusu-Ansah who converted a penalty kick in the 84th minute.<\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s victory, the Black Maidens are 3rd on the table with 3 points and a goal difference of -4.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-254851\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/maidens13.jpg\" alt=\"maidens13\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They will face Paraguay in their last group D game on Saturday at the Al Hassan International Stadium, Irbid at 1600 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: FIFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana came from a goal down to win by 2 goals to 1 in its second group D match against the United States of America in the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup. The Black Maidens in their previous game suffered a humiliating 5-0 defeat to their Japanese counterparts at the Prince Mohammed International Stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":254852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[12235,42,3,12288],"class_list":["post-254841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-black-maidens","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-under-17-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}