{"id":31184,"date":"2025-06-17T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fih-nations-cup-wales-women-beat-czechia-2-0-for-first-nations-league-win\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:13:01","slug":"fih-nations-cup-wales-women-beat-czechia-2-0-for-first-nations-league-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fih-nations-cup-wales-women-beat-czechia-2-0-for-first-nations-league-win\/","title":{"rendered":"FIH Nations Cup: Wales&#8217; women beat Czechia 2-0 for first Nations League win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales&#8217; women claimed their first victory at the inaugural FIH Women&#8217;s Nations Cup 2 in Poland with a hard-fought 2-0 win against Czechia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In head coach Kevin Johnson&#8217;s 100th game in charge, the first period finished goalless before Elizabeth Bingham put Wales ahead midway through the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beth Peers, winning only her second cap, then added to the goal she scored in the opening 3-3 draw against Italy, doubling Wales&#8217; lead with six minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory put Johnson&#8217;s side top of Pool B in advance of France playing their second fixture against Italy later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Czechia are bottom of the table, having lost their opening match 3-0 against the French side who are Wales&#8217; final opponents in the group stage on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/hockey\/articles\/cz097x91z7yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales&#8217; women claimed their first victory at the inaugural FIH Women&#8217;s Nations Cup 2 in Poland with a hard-fought 2-0 win against Czechia. In head coach Kevin Johnson&#8217;s 100th game in charge, the first period finished goalless before Elizabeth Bingham put Wales ahead midway through the second quarter. Beth Peers, winning only her second cap, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[3176,805,10567,10566,206,1063,312,1186,838],"class_list":["post-31184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-beat","tag-cup","tag-czechia","tag-fih","tag-league","tag-nations","tag-wales","tag-win","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31186,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31184\/revisions\/31186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}