{"id":223326,"date":"2026-02-10T00:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-breaks-ground-for-u-s-484k-artificial-turf-project-at-willie-d-knuckles-pitch\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:04:06","slug":"liberia-lfa-breaks-ground-for-u-s-484k-artificial-turf-project-at-willie-d-knuckles-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-breaks-ground-for-u-s-484k-artificial-turf-project-at-willie-d-knuckles-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LFA Breaks Ground for U.S.$484k Artificial Turf Project At Willie D. Knuckles Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Monrovia \u2014 The Liberia Football Association (LFA) has officially broken ground for the installation of an artificial turf at the Willie D. Knuckles Pitch in Paynesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The project, funded under the FIFA Forward 3.0 Development Programme, marks a significant step in the LFA&#8217;s drive to modernize football infrastructure across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The groundbreaking ceremony, held on Saturday, February 7, highlights the LFA&#8217;s ongoing efforts to transition from dirt pitches to international-standard&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602090334.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 The Liberia Football Association (LFA) has officially broken ground for the installation of an artificial turf at the Willie D. Knuckles Pitch in Paynesville. The project, funded under the FIFA Forward 3.0 Development Programme, marks a significant step in the LFA&#8217;s drive to modernize football infrastructure across the country. The groundbreaking ceremony, held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223327,"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":[258,256,18679,9189,6914,33614,15550,4712,1107,257,11101,6504,254,13462,53614,30680],"class_list":["post-223326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-artificial","tag-breaks","tag-ground","tag-knuckles","tag-lfa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pitch","tag-project","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turf","tag-u-s-484k","tag-willie"],"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\/223326","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=223326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}