{"id":193332,"date":"2025-03-11T18:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-rise-of-womens-football-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T18:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:41:48","slug":"ghana-the-rise-of-womens-football-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-rise-of-womens-football-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: The Rise of Women&#8217;s Football in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">Women&#8217;s soccer in Ghana has evolved a great deal over the years, enduring challenging times to rise to a key part of the sporting culture of the nation. With more support, sponsorship and grassroots development heading its way, the female players begin to enjoy the accolades they rightfully deserve. With the sport continuing to expand, it paves the way to more opportunities and a stronger presence on the world&#8217;s sporting scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><strong>A History of Determination and Growth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">Women&#8217;s football in Ghana dates&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503110524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s soccer in Ghana has evolved a great deal over the years, enduring challenging times to rise to a key part of the sporting culture of the nation. With more support, sponsorship and grassroots development heading its way, the female players begin to enjoy the accolades they rightfully deserve. With the sport continuing to expand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193333,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,3299,4508,4509,257,10256,254,6460],"class_list":["post-193332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-football","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-rise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-womens"],"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\/193332","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=193332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}