{"id":42304,"date":"2021-08-01T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T10:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/fifa-video-news-release-schools-tournament-benin\/"},"modified":"2021-08-01T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T10:03:12","slug":"fifa-video-news-release-schools-tournament-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/fifa-video-news-release-schools-tournament-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA video news release: Schools tournament (Benin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"press-body-in\">\n                    <span><br \/>\n                                            GRAND POPO, Benin, July 28, 2021\/APO Group\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A pilot project between FIFA, the Beninese Football Association (FEBEFOOT), the Benin Ministry of Sport is taking place from July 23-30, 2021. Both boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 Under-16 teams from schools across the country have competed for a place at the finals in Grand Popo, where 12 boys and 12 girls teams will be accommodated in the same city.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The importance of schools\u2019 football was emphasized by FIFA President Gianni infantino on a visit to Benin in February 2021: Schools football progress tops Benin agenda (fifa.com) (https:\/\/fifa.fans\/3kZektF). Furthermore, the agreement had been signed with FIFA in 2020, proving the important link between football, development and society FIFA gives backing to Benin\u2019s school football championship (https:\/\/fifa.fans\/3rASxK6).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fifa.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/fifa-video-news-release-schools-tournament-benin?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND POPO, Benin, July 28, 2021\/APO Group\/ &#8212; A pilot project between FIFA, the Beninese Football Association (FEBEFOOT), the Benin Ministry of Sport is taking place from July 23-30, 2021. Both boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 Under-16 teams from schools across the country have competed for a place at the finals in Grand Popo, where 12 boys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}