{"id":231738,"date":"2026-04-29T03:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/west-africa-liberia-china-launch-historic-village-super-league-football-exchange\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:26:12","slug":"west-africa-liberia-china-launch-historic-village-super-league-football-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/west-africa-liberia-china-launch-historic-village-super-league-football-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Liberia, China Launch Historic &#8216;Village Super League&#8217; Football Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Liberia and China have launched a new chapter in their bilateral relations &#8212; one driven not by formal agreements or trade deals, but by the unifying force of football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">On Friday, April 24, 2026, the Chinese Embassy near Monrovia officially launched the &#8220;Guizhou Village Super League Friendly Matches&#8221; program, a youth-focused football exchange designed to deepen cultural ties between the two countries through sport. The initiative will see a delegation of young Liberian players travel to China,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604280592.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>Liberia and China have launched a new chapter in their bilateral relations &#8212; one driven not by formal agreements or trade deals, but by the unifying force of football. On Friday, April 24, 2026, the Chinese Embassy near Monrovia officially launched the &#8220;Guizhou Village Super League Friendly Matches&#8221; program, a youth-focused football exchange designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231739,"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":[258,256,434,9607,3299,13203,5741,7027,4712,1107,257,254,9095,10217,4375],"class_list":["post-231738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-china","tag-exchange","tag-football","tag-historic","tag-launch","tag-league","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-village","tag-west"],"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\/231738","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=231738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}