{"id":206063,"date":"2025-09-01T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-from-monrovia-to-bangkok-a-young-footballers-journey-to-stardom\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:57:07","slug":"liberia-from-monrovia-to-bangkok-a-young-footballers-journey-to-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-from-monrovia-to-bangkok-a-young-footballers-journey-to-stardom\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: From Monrovia to Bangkok &#8211; a Young Footballer&#8217;s Journey to Stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Monrovia \u2014 A promising young Liberian athlete is aiming to make his mark as a future defensive midfielder. Fourteen-year-old Louis Saah Kamara Jr., of the Elite Football Academy (EFA), is currently in Bangkok, Thailand, to participate in the BVB Youth Football Tournament. He is among 14 athletes representing the academy in this international event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">In an exclusive interview with <em>FrontPage Africa<\/em> before his departure, Kamara shared that his father, Louis Saah Kamara Sr., who resides in Germany,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509010340.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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 A promising young Liberian athlete is aiming to make his mark as a future defensive midfielder. Fourteen-year-old Louis Saah Kamara Jr., of the Elite Football Academy (EFA), is currently in Bangkok, Thailand, to participate in the BVB Youth Football Tournament. He is among 14 athletes representing the academy in this international event. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206064,"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":[258,256,43943,11694,7369,4712,1107,1088,257,254,28974,7720],"class_list":["post-206063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bangkok","tag-footballers","tag-journey","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-monrovia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stardom","tag-young"],"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\/206063","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=206063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}