{"id":184446,"date":"2024-11-12T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-ivorian-club-fba-wins-fiba-zone-3-womens-basketball-championship\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:39:14","slug":"liberia-ivorian-club-fba-wins-fiba-zone-3-womens-basketball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-ivorian-club-fba-wins-fiba-zone-3-womens-basketball-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ivorian Club FBA Wins Fiba Zone-3 Women&#8217;s Basketball Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The FIBA Africa Zone 3 Women&#8217;s Basketball League has concluded in Liberia, with Friends of Basketball Association (FBA) crowned as champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Ivorian champions defeated Nigeria&#8217;s Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM) 62-57 on Sunday at the SKD gymnasium in Paynesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This was the first major international tournament hosted by Liberia following the lifting of a FIBA ban on basketball due to internal disputes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In a repeat of their heated group-stage match, both teams went neck-and-neck, but the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411120261.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIBA Africa Zone 3 Women&#8217;s Basketball League has concluded in Liberia, with Friends of Basketball Association (FBA) crowned as champions. The Ivorian champions defeated Nigeria&#8217;s Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM) 62-57 on Sunday at the SKD gymnasium in Paynesville. This was the first major international tournament hosted by Liberia following the lifting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184447,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,10261,6843,7400,6183,6555,49954,10133,6800,1218,4712,257,254,6552,6460,49955],"class_list":["post-184446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basketball","tag-championship","tag-club","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-fba","tag-fiba","tag-ivorian","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins","tag-womens","tag-zone3"],"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\/184446","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=184446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}