{"id":237396,"date":"2026-06-25T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-raises-bar-for-match-officiating-in-landmark-wshop\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:43:59","slug":"liberia-lfa-raises-bar-for-match-officiating-in-landmark-wshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-raises-bar-for-match-officiating-in-landmark-wshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LFA Raises Bar for Match Officiating in Landmark W&#8217;shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">In a strategic move to solidify the integrity of the &#8220;Beautiful Game&#8221; in Liberia, the Liberia Football Association (LFA) has officially brought the curtains down on an intensive capacity-building workshop for its referee instructors and assessors. The LFA organized this program to improve referee judgment, and it represents a significant stride toward elevating local league standards to a world-class level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">For several days, the LFA&#8217;s refereeing department&#8211;the third team on every pitch&#8211;underwent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250626.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>In a strategic move to solidify the integrity of the &#8220;Beautiful Game&#8221; in Liberia, the Liberia Football Association (LFA) has officially brought the curtains down on an intensive capacity-building workshop for its referee instructors and assessors. The LFA organized this program to improve referee judgment, and it represents a significant stride toward elevating local league [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237397,"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":[258,256,14310,12583,15550,4712,1107,8778,257,18360,5234,254,53641],"class_list":["post-237396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bar","tag-landmark","tag-lfa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-match","tag-news","tag-officiating","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wshop"],"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\/237396","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=237396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}