{"id":28143,"date":"2025-07-28T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28143\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:43:08","slug":"payne-nigeria-win-africa-cup-of-nations-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28143\/","title":{"rendered":"Payne, Nigeria Win Africa Cup of Nations Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RABAT, Morocco \u2013\u00a0 Duke women&#8217;s soccer alumna Toni Payne helped lead her home country of Nigeria to the Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations title, which marked the 10th championship for Nigeria.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIn the championship match against host Morocco, Payne and her Nigeria squad scored three unanswered goals to come-from-behind to win, 3-2.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNigeria opened the action in group stage by defeating Tunisia, 3-0, and then posted a 1-0 win over Botswana.\u00a0 To close group stage, Nigeria drew, 0-0, with Algeria.\u00a0 In the opening round of the knockout stage, Nigeria totaled a 5-0 victory over Zambia and then notched a 2-1 win over South Africa in the semifinals.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWith the championship, Nigeria earned $1,000,000 in prize money.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPayne is a 2017 Duke graduate and helped lead the Blue Devils to the 2015 NCAA College Cup.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTo stay up to date with Blue Devils women&#8217;s soccer, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching &#8220;DukeWSOC&#8221;.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n#GoDuke<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RABAT, Morocco \u2013\u00a0 Duke women&#8217;s soccer alumna Toni Payne helped lead her home country of Nigeria to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-28143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}