{"id":183961,"date":"2024-11-05T06:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nudo-swanu-ledgovt-to-professionalise-football\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T06:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T04:23:07","slug":"namibia-nudo-swanu-ledgovt-to-professionalise-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nudo-swanu-ledgovt-to-professionalise-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nudo-Swanu-Ledgovt to Professionalise Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Barry Rukoro, the president of the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) faction in coalition with the South West Africa National Union (Swanu), said once elected into power, they will professionalise football and sport at large in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">He shared with <em>New Era Sport<\/em> that the professionalism strategy will include establishing well-supported football academies across regions with quality training facilities, mentorship and competitive opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Rukoro was at the helm of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040297.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Rukoro, the president of the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) faction in coalition with the South West Africa National Union (Swanu), said once elected into power, they will professionalise football and sport at large in the country. He shared with New Era Sport that the professionalism strategy will include establishing well-supported football academies across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183962,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,3299,4706,724,257,49896,49897,254],"class_list":["post-183961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-football","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nudoswanuledgovt","tag-professionalise","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/183961","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}