{"id":15343,"date":"2025-07-17T19:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/?p=15343"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:58:50","slug":"sabitra-bhandari-to-play-for-wellington-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/sabitra-bhandari-to-play-for-wellington-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabitra Bhandari to play for Wellington Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nepal women&#8217;s football team captain Sabitra Bhandari (Samba) will play in Australia&#8217;s Ninja A-League. She has signed a contract with Wellington Phoenix for the next two seasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wellington, although a New Zealand club, has been playing in Australia&#8217;s Ninja A League. The club stated that Sabitra has been an outstanding goalscorer for both club and country, and signing her is a significant step for the team. She scored a total of 9 goals, including a hat-trick, in two consecutive matches in the recent AFC Women&#8217;s Asian Cup qualifiers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After scoring over 60 goals in 24 games in the Indian Women&#8217;s Super League, Savitra made history by becoming the first Nepali player to play and score in Europe&#8217;s top league while playing for French club En Avant Guingamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal women&#8217;s football team captain Sabitra Bhandari (Samba) will play in Australia&#8217;s Ninja A-League. She has signed a contract with Wellington Phoenix for the next two seasons. Wellington, although a New Zealand club, has been playing in Australia&#8217;s Ninja A League. The club stated that Sabitra has been an outstanding goalscorer for both club and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[449],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15345,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions\/15345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=15343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}