{"id":211788,"date":"2025-10-29T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-notsi-reflects-on-abortive-world-cup-campaign\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:27:56","slug":"lesotho-notsi-reflects-on-abortive-world-cup-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-notsi-reflects-on-abortive-world-cup-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Not\u0161i Reflects On Abortive World Cup Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8230;says country needs to invest in soccer development<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8230;calls for cooperation from club coaches<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">After\u00a0another failed bid to qualify for the FIFA World Cup, Likuena coach, Leslie Not\u0161i, has reflected on the major factors hindering the progress of Lesotho football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">He bemoaned the lack of investment in football development, the continued reliance on amateur and semi-professional clubs for national team players, and the country&#8217;s ongoing struggle to export players to professional and competitive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510160572.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;says country needs to invest in soccer development &#8230;calls for cooperation from club coaches After\u00a0another failed bid to qualify for the FIFA World Cup, Likuena coach, Leslie Not\u0161i, has reflected on the major factors hindering the progress of Lesotho football. He bemoaned the lack of investment in football development, the continued reliance on amateur and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211789,"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":[1406],"tags":[52723,258,256,4302,6674,4717,1407,257,23327,16974,254,5093],"class_list":["post-211788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-abortive","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-campaign","tag-cup","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-notsi","tag-reflects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/211788","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}