{"id":9715,"date":"2015-11-09T02:56:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T07:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=9715"},"modified":"2015-11-09T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T08:00:30","slug":"ghana-wins-ethiopia-4-0-to-qualify-for-the-2016-u-20-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9715","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Wins Ethiopia 4-0 to Qualify for 2016 U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/womens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-9716 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/womens-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"womens\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/womens-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/womens-220x160.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/womens.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two west-African countries will represent Africa at the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup to be staged in Papua New Guinea. Ghana and Nigeria earned their place in the competition over the weekend after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/womens-football\/news\/y=2015\/m=11\/news=ghana-and-nigeria-book-places-in-png-2731265.html\">defeating Ethiopia and South Africa<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Black Princesses hosted Ethiopia in Kumasi on Sunday at the Baba Yara stadium. The Princesses put up a definitive performance at home, winning Ethiopia by 4-0. Ghana qualifies for the World Cup next year on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Black-Princess-trounce-Ethiopia-to-qualify-for-WC-392809\">6-2<\/a> aggregate after drawing 2-2 in Addis Ababa during the first leg on October 24th.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia conceded the first goal in the 33<sup>rd<\/sup> minute and could not sustain he pressure from Ghana in the second half. The other goals came in the 48<sup>th<\/sup>, 50th and 68<sup>th<\/sup> minute of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria recorded a second win over South Africa on Sunday to confirm their place in the international tournament. Nigeria\u2019s Falconets qualified on a 3-1 aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Zehabesha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two west-African countries will represent Africa at the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup to be staged in Papua New Guinea. Ghana and Nigeria earned their place in the competition over the weekend after defeating Ethiopia and South Africa respectively.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9715\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,46,1],"tags":[4441,4967,897,347,665],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9718,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715\/revisions\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}