{"id":236405,"date":"2026-06-15T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ramoreboli-backs-phoko-move-to-siwelele-fc\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:39:16","slug":"botswana-ramoreboli-backs-phoko-move-to-siwelele-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ramoreboli-backs-phoko-move-to-siwelele-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Ramoreboli Backs Phoko Move to Siwelele FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Gaborone \u2014 The senior national football team head coach, Morena Ramoreboli has backed goalkeeper, Goitseone Phoko&#8217;s recent transfer to South Africa&#8217;s Betway Premiership outfit, Siwelele FC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Phoko has put pen to paper on a two-year contract, a move the Zebras tactician described as a major step in the right direction for the player&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In an interview, Ramoreboli praised the national team shot-stopper as a tried-and-tested talent who had consistently proven to be a hard nut to crack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606150317.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>Gaborone \u2014 The senior national football team head coach, Morena Ramoreboli has backed goalkeeper, Goitseone Phoko&#8217;s recent transfer to South Africa&#8217;s Betway Premiership outfit, Siwelele FC. Phoko has put pen to paper on a two-year contract, a move the Zebras tactician described as a major step in the right direction for the player&#8217;s career. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236406,"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":[258,256,7102,4718,2462,4367,257,54621,50657,54622,254],"class_list":["post-236405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-move","tag-news","tag-phoko","tag-ramoreboli","tag-siwelele","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\/236405","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=236405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}