{"id":418932,"date":"2011-05-06T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/06\/nigeria-win-first-wafu-match-ghana-to-play-togo\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:49:54","slug":"nigeria-win-first-wafu-match-ghana-to-play-togo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/nigeria-win-first-wafu-match-ghana-to-play-togo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Win First Wafu Match, Ghana To Play Togo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"56\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-28611\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/nigeria-win-first-wafu-match-ghana-to-play-togo\/wafu-logo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28611\" title=\"Wafu logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Wafu-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wafu logo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Nigeria began the defence of their Wafu Cup title with a 1-0 win over Liberia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match had to be hastily rearranged following the last-minute withdrawals of Mali and Senegal from the West African regional championship.<\/p>\n<p>Hosts Nigeria had been due to play Mali in the Group A opener and the change meant that Niger had a rest day.<\/p>\n<p>Ekighio Ehiosun, who plays for Nigerian side Warri Wolves, scored the only goal of the game for coach Samson Siasia\u2019s team of locally-based players.<\/p>\n<p>No official reason has been given for the withdrawals by Senegal or Mali.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of Senegal means that Group B has also been reduced to three teams \u2013 The Gambia, Togo and Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers have revised the timetable of games and Friday will now be a rest day.<\/p>\n<p>The next matches will be on Saturday with Nigeria playing Niger and Togo up against Ghana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/nigeria-win-first-wafu-match-ghana-to-play-togo\/\" title=\"Nigeria Win First Wafu Match, Ghana To Play Togo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria Win First Wafu Match, Ghana To Play Togo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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