{"id":177942,"date":"2024-05-03T09:05:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/03\/defending-champions-dreams-fc-cruise-to-semis-with-narrow-win-over-soccer-intellectuals\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T09:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:05:50","slug":"defending-champions-dreams-fc-cruise-to-semis-with-narrow-win-over-soccer-intellectuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/03\/defending-champions-dreams-fc-cruise-to-semis-with-narrow-win-over-soccer-intellectuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champions Dreams FC cruise to semis with narrow win over Soccer Intellectuals \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Dreams Football Club defeated Soccer Intellectuals by a goal to nil on Thursday afternoon to make it to the semi-finals of this season\u2019s MTN FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Dawu-based club made history last season when the team lifted the MTN FA Cup trophy for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>This season, the team is doing very well in the competition and on course to defend the title.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the team hosted Soccer Intellectuals in the quarterfinals of the domestic cup competition.<\/p>\n<p>In a game played at the Theatre of Dreams, Dreams FC secured a 1-0 victory courtesy of a solitary goal from Abdul Aziz Issah in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Dreams FC led by head coach Karim Zito, are confident of going past the semi-final stage to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p>The club\u2019s target is to win the competition to make a return to the CAF Confederation Cup next season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Into the Semi-Finals of the MTN FA CUP \u2705<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DreamsIntellectuals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DreamsIntellectuals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StillBelieve?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StillBelieve<\/a>\u261d\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc9a | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IGWT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IGWT<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MTNFACUP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MTNFACUP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ctZhNNkGG\">pic.twitter.com\/1ctZhNNkGG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DREAMS FC \ud83c\udfc6 22\/23 FA CUP CHAMPIONS (@DreamsFootballC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DreamsFootballC\/status\/1786077018624307239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams Football Club defeated Soccer Intellectuals by a goal to nil on Thursday afternoon to make it to the semi-finals of this season\u2019s MTN FA Cup. The Dawu-based club made history last season when the team lifted the MTN FA Cup trophy for the first time. This season, the team is doing very well in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Defending champions Dreams FC cruise to semis with narrow win over Soccer Intellectuals \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/03\/defending-champions-dreams-fc-cruise-to-semis-with-narrow-win-over-soccer-intellectuals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Defending champions Dreams FC cruise to semis with narrow win over Soccer Intellectuals \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dreams Football Club defeated Soccer Intellectuals by a goal to nil on Thursday afternoon to make it to the semi-finals of this season\u2019s MTN FA Cup. 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