{"id":227721,"date":"2026-03-21T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-football-must-be-decided-on-the-pitch\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:33:09","slug":"liberia-football-must-be-decided-on-the-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-football-must-be-decided-on-the-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;Football Must Be Decided On the Pitch&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Former Liberian President and global football icon George Manneh Weah has mounted a strong challenge against the decision of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to withdraw the AFCON 2025 championship from Senegal and award it to Morocco, insisting that the outcome of matches must be determined strictly on the field of play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a sharply worded statement issued on March 18, Weah criticized CAF&#8217;s ruling as a direct contradiction of football&#8217;s governing principles and warned that such&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200448.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>Former Liberian President and global football icon George Manneh Weah has mounted a strong challenge against the decision of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to withdraw the AFCON 2025 championship from Senegal and award it to Morocco, insisting that the outcome of matches must be determined strictly on the field of play. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227722,"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":[258,256,13355,3299,4712,1107,257,11101,254],"class_list":["post-227721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decided","tag-football","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pitch","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/227721","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=227721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}