{"id":228708,"date":"2026-03-27T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-minister-kruah-woos-real-madrid-foundation-for-youth-sports-partnership\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:46:27","slug":"liberia-minister-kruah-woos-real-madrid-foundation-for-youth-sports-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-minister-kruah-woos-real-madrid-foundation-for-youth-sports-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Minister Kruah Woos Real Madrid Foundation for Youth Sports Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Madrid \u2014 In a significant move for Liberia&#8217;s sports diplomacy, the Minister of Youth and Sports, Cornelia Wonkerleh Kruah, has initiated high-level discussions with the Real Madrid Foundation aimed at forging a strategic partnership to expand youth development through football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The engagement, held at the Foundation&#8217;s headquarters in Madrid on March 26, 2026, marks a pivotal step in the Boakai administration&#8217;s push to leverage international sports brands to empower Liberian youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>The Madrid&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270314.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>Madrid \u2014 In a significant move for Liberia&#8217;s sports diplomacy, the Minister of Youth and Sports, Cornelia Wonkerleh Kruah, has initiated high-level discussions with the Real Madrid Foundation aimed at forging a strategic partnership to expand youth development through football. The engagement, held at the Foundation&#8217;s headquarters in Madrid on March 26, 2026, marks a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228709,"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":[258,256,5265,45407,4712,1107,15532,5941,257,6020,6884,254,8045,19248,6276],"class_list":["post-228708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-foundation","tag-kruah","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-madrid","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-partnership","tag-real","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-woos","tag-youth"],"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\/228708","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=228708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}