{"id":148509,"date":"2026-02-28T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148509\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:01:08","slug":"impressive-black-queens-humiliate-hong-kong-in-pink-ladies-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148509\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Black Queens humiliate Hong Kong in Pink Ladies Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Impressive-Black-Queens-humiliate-Hong-Kong-in-Pink-Ladies-Cup-opener-2023751?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/14338473.295.jpg\" alt=\"The Black Queens of Ghana\" title=\"The Black Queens of Ghana\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <\/a>The Black Queens of Ghana<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Black Queens of Ghana kicked off their 2026 Pink Ladies Cup tournament with an emphatic 4-0 win over Hong Kong. <\/p>\n<p>The two sides clashed at the Al-Hamriya Sports Club Stadium in the UAE on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>After a slow start, the Queens broke the deadlock in the 28th minute through FC Nordsjaelland forward Princess Marfo, who finished off a well-worked move to open the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes later, Doris Boaduwaa capitalised on a defensive blunder to slot home Ghana\u2019s second, giving the team a comfortable 2-0 lead heading into the break.<\/p>\n<p>After recess, Nottingham Forest attacker Chantelle Hlorkah-Boye made it 3-0 after Hong Kong failed to deal with a teasing corner from Comfort Yeboah. Boaduwaa later won a penalty in the 54th minute but saw her effort saved.<\/p>\n<p>Ampem Darkoa Ladies star Ajegipina Zakaria marked her debut in style with a stunning late goal to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Following the victory, the Black Queens will return to camp for recovery before preparing for their second fixture against Russia on Tuesday, March 3, at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>The games form part of Black Queens preparations for the 2026 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) tournament scheduled to be hosted in Morocco next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Queens of Ghana The Black Queens of Ghana kicked off their 2026 Pink Ladies Cup tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-148509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}