{"id":235201,"date":"2026-06-03T05:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-invest-in-young-talent-ramoreboli\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:07:52","slug":"botswana-invest-in-young-talent-ramoreboli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-invest-in-young-talent-ramoreboli\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Invest in Young Talent &#8211; Ramoreboli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Lobatse \u2014 Investing in emerging talent from an early age is critical in driving a new era of development and sustainability in football, says Botswana national team football coach, Morena Ramoreboli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Launching the new kid on the block, Lobatse based First Touch Football Academy on Friday, Ramoreboli said valuable football assets were better groomed from an early age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He said early childhood development will provide a steady stream of young, talented players to the national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606010562.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lobatse \u2014 Investing in emerging talent from an early age is critical in driving a new era of development and sustainability in football, says Botswana national team football coach, Morena Ramoreboli. Launching the new kid on the block, Lobatse based First Touch Football Academy on Friday, Ramoreboli said valuable football assets were better groomed from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235202,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,11585,257,50657,254,6289,7720],"class_list":["post-235201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-invest","tag-news","tag-ramoreboli","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talent","tag-young"],"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\/235201","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=235201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}