{"id":249495,"date":"2026-11-09T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-maiden-kivo-u-17-regional-champions-cup-kicks-off-today\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:00:07","slug":"ghana-maiden-kivo-u-17-regional-champions-cup-kicks-off-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-maiden-kivo-u-17-regional-champions-cup-kicks-off-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Maiden Kivo U-17 Regional Champions Cup Kicks Off Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The maiden edition of the KIVO U-17 Regional Champions Cup kicks off today and runs until November 15 at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence, with 13 teams battling for honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The tournament, launched last Thursday, is a new Colts football initiative designed to bring together the best U-17 regional champions from across Ghana to compete for regional supremacy and national honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The competition is expected to provide regional champions with a higher level of competition, greater exposure&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611090266.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The maiden edition of the KIVO U-17 Regional Champions Cup kicks off today and runs until November 15 at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence, with 13 teams battling for honours. The tournament, launched last Thursday, is a new Colts football initiative designed to bring together the best U-17 regional champions from across Ghana to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249496,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,14490,6674,4508,4509,7023,55801,6965,257,4268,254,6637,9489],"class_list":["post-249495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-champions","tag-cup","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-kicks","tag-kivo","tag-maiden","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today","tag-u17"],"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\/249495","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=249495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}