{"id":246259,"date":"2026-10-03T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lone-star-must-not-become-a-victim-of-political-bitterness\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:30:19","slug":"liberia-lone-star-must-not-become-a-victim-of-political-bitterness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lone-star-must-not-become-a-victim-of-political-bitterness\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Lone Star Must Not Become a Victim of Political Bitterness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rev. Luther Tarpeh is right about one central issue: Liberia must not abandon the Lone Star because of another painful defeat. Building a competitive national team requires patience, funding, preparation and a long-term development plan.<\/p>\n

The large turnout on Tuesday showed that Liberians still care about the team. Supporters came expecting victory, but their presence also demonstrated that football remains one of the few forces capable of bringing the country together. That unity must be protected…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rev. Luther Tarpeh is right about one central issue: Liberia must not abandon the Lone Star because of another painful defeat. Building a competitive national team requires patience, funding, preparation and a long-term development plan. The large turnout on Tuesday showed that Liberians still care about the team. Supporters came expecting victory, but their presence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246260,"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":[258,256,49442,4712,1107,10127,257,6378,254,10128,7179],"class_list":["post-246259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bitterness","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lone","tag-news","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star","tag-victim"],"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\/246259","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=246259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}