{"id":197517,"date":"2025-05-06T06:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-president-boakai-pledges-stronger-support-for-football-as-tool-for-national-unity-and-youth-empowerment\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:45:41","slug":"liberia-president-boakai-pledges-stronger-support-for-football-as-tool-for-national-unity-and-youth-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-president-boakai-pledges-stronger-support-for-football-as-tool-for-national-unity-and-youth-empowerment\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: President Boakai Pledges Stronger Support for Football As Tool for National Unity and Youth Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Monrovia \u2014 President Joseph Boakai has reiterated his administration&#8217;s commitment to promoting national unity and youth development through sports, especially football, during a meeting with the leadership of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) at the Executive Mansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Speaking at the engagement, President Boakai, Liberia&#8217;s Chief Patron of Sports, emphasized football&#8217;s unique role in uniting communities and offering opportunities for young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;Football serves as a unifying force that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505050405.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 President Joseph Boakai has reiterated his administration&#8217;s commitment to promoting national unity and youth development through sports, especially football, during a meeting with the leadership of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) at the Executive Mansion. Speaking at the engagement, President Boakai, Liberia&#8217;s Chief Patron of Sports, emphasized football&#8217;s unique role in uniting communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197518,"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":[258,256,7324,6461,3299,4712,1107,6687,257,7287,2450,254,7288,6096,6611,4019,6276],"class_list":["post-197517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-empowerment","tag-football","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-pledges","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stronger","tag-support","tag-tool","tag-unity","tag-youth"],"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\/197517","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=197517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}