{"id":217719,"date":"2025-12-22T22:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-teenage-match-official-gains-huge-experience-from-caf-u17-gift-zimbabwe-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:29:40","slug":"africa-teenage-match-official-gains-huge-experience-from-caf-u17-gift-zimbabwe-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-teenage-match-official-gains-huge-experience-from-caf-u17-gift-zimbabwe-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Teenage Match Official Gains Huge Experience From CAF U17 Gift Zimbabwe 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>The CAF Under-17 Girls Integrated Football Tournament (GIFT) Zimbabwe 2025 is not just about giving players exposure to international competition but also referees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Many young match officials have been selected to take charge of games, in many cases giving them their first introduction to officiating international matches between teams from different countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">One such referee is 18-year-old Fatima Nouricce from Seychelles, who is just starting out in her career but eager to learn and embrace the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512220268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CAF Under-17 Girls Integrated Football Tournament (GIFT) Zimbabwe 2025 is not just about giving players exposure to international competition but also referees. Many young match officials have been selected to take charge of games, in many cases giving them their first introduction to officiating international matches between teams from different countries. One such referee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,3742,8086,7219,16206,8409,8778,257,5092,254,11605,9489,4686,421],"class_list":["post-217719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-experience","tag-gains","tag-gift","tag-huge","tag-match","tag-news","tag-official","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teenage","tag-u17","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217719","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=217719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}