{"id":196481,"date":"2025-04-21T06:14:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-suspends-wologizi-coach-benfelix-four-referees-over-match-fixing-allegations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T06:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:14:42","slug":"liberia-lfa-suspends-wologizi-coach-benfelix-four-referees-over-match-fixing-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-suspends-wologizi-coach-benfelix-four-referees-over-match-fixing-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LFA Suspends Wologizi Coach Benfelix, Four Referees Over Match-Fixing Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Monrovia \u2014 The Liberia Football Association (LFA) has suspended Wologizi FC head coach Jasper Benfelix and four referees from all LFA-sanctioned activities, pending the outcome of investigations into allegations of match manipulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Coach Benfelix, who recently led Wologizi FC to the Second Division championship, is being probed following a controversial message allegedly posted in a WhatsApp group. In the message, he reportedly stated that he would do anything to help his former club, Nimba&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180299.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Liberia Football Association (LFA) has suspended Wologizi FC head coach Jasper Benfelix and four referees from all LFA-sanctioned activities, pending the outcome of investigations into allegations of match manipulation. Coach Benfelix, who recently led Wologizi FC to the Second Division championship, is being probed following a controversial message allegedly posted in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8577,51179,7346,15550,4712,1107,31189,257,10925,254,10452,49891],"class_list":["post-196481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegations","tag-benfelix","tag-coach","tag-lfa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-matchfixing","tag-news","tag-referees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends","tag-wologizi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196481","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=196481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}