{"id":178603,"date":"2024-08-15T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T20:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-president-raji-urges-match-commissioners-to-be-patient-over-caf-and-fifa-decision-to-officiate-matches\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T20:01:47","slug":"liberia-lfa-president-raji-urges-match-commissioners-to-be-patient-over-caf-and-fifa-decision-to-officiate-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-president-raji-urges-match-commissioners-to-be-patient-over-caf-and-fifa-decision-to-officiate-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LFA President Raji Urges Match Commissioners to Be Patient Over CAF and FIFA Decision to Officiate Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Monrovia \u2014 The president of the Liberia Football Association (LFA), Mustapha Raji, has pleaded with local match commissioners to be patient and wait for their moment regarding when FIFA and CAF will hand them the international stage to officiate matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">They have been raising concerns why they haven&#8217;t been called up by FIFA and CAF to officiate at continental competitions, but Mustapha Raji has called for their calm, patience, and dedication for two key reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The president told scores of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408150299.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The president of the Liberia Football Association (LFA), Mustapha Raji, has pleaded with local match commissioners to be patient and wait for their moment regarding when FIFA and CAF will hand them the international stage to officiate matches. They have been raising concerns why they haven&#8217;t been called up by FIFA and CAF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,3742,22658,7430,9109,15550,4712,1107,8778,19750,257,27007,13447,2450,42081,254,6810],"class_list":["post-178603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-commissioners","tag-decision","tag-fifa","tag-lfa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-match","tag-matches","tag-news","tag-officiate","tag-patient","tag-president","tag-raji","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}