{"id":26507,"date":"2025-11-25T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=26507"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:13:07","slug":"portugal-edges-brazil-advances-to-u17-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=26507","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Edges Brazil, Advances to U17 World Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Doha, Qatar<\/strong> \u2013 Portugal has secured its place in the final of the U17 World Cup, currently being held in Qatar, after a dramatic penalty shootout victory over Brazil. The semi-final clash, held at the Aspire Academy grounds in Doha on Monday, concluded with a 6-5 win for the Portuguese side following a scoreless draw.<\/p>\n<p>The tense encounter saw both teams battling fiercely for a breakthrough throughout the regulation time, but neither managed to find the back of the net. This deadlock forced the match into a nerve-wracking penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil faltered, converting only four of their spot-kicks, with misses from Ruan Pablo and Angelo Candido proving costly. Portugal, despite Romario Cunha missing one of their penalties, managed to convert five, ultimately sealing their progression to the final.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal will now face Austria in the final, scheduled for Thursday. Austria secured their place after a 2-0 victory over Italy, with both goals scored by Johannes Moser in the 57th and 90+2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch will continue to provide updates as the U17 World Cup progresses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=40\">More Sports articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doha, Qatar \u2013 Portugal has secured its place in the final of the U17 World Cup, currently being held in Qatar, after a dramatic penalty shootout victory over Brazil. The semi-final clash, held at the Aspire Academy grounds in Doha on Monday, concluded with a 6-5 win for the Portu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26509,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507\/revisions\/26509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}