{"id":2696,"date":"2023-08-04T08:41:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/08\/04\/street-soccer-championship-return-in-lagos\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T08:41:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:41:30","slug":"street-soccer-championship-return-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/08\/04\/street-soccer-championship-return-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Soccer Championship return in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Lagos-Street-Soccer-Championship.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Lagos-Street-Soccer-Championship-640x424.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Lagos-Street-Soccer-Championship-640x424.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Lagos-Street-Soccer-Championship-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Lagos-Street-Soccer-Championship-635x420.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Lagos-Street-Soccer-Championship-681x451.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Lagos-Street-Soccer-Championship.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lagos Street Soccer Championship\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Rising from its inaugural meeting, the Lagos Street Soccer Committee has commenced plans to kick off the Street Soccer Championship in the State before the end of the year at a date to be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/kamaru-usman-eyes-showdown-with-stephen-wonderboy-thompson-for-ufc-comeback\/\">Kamaru Usman Eyes Showdown with Stephen \u201cWonderboy\u201d Thompson for UFC Comeback<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ably present in the meeting was Lagos State Football Association chairman Fuad Oki who was there to reiterate the mission of the new FA board to reposition football in Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am here to reaffirm the commitment of Lagos State FA and in extension the Lagos State government\u2019s unwavering desire to engage youths through football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalents abound across the State but we must provide an enabling environment for them to thrive. This is in line with the position of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Lagos state government.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of Lagos Street Soccer Championship Bolaji Yusuf also corroborates the roadmap of Lagos FA and expresses his desire to set the ball rolling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s meeting is important in the anal stage of the committee as we were able to activate the process of how to bring back the glamorous Street Soccer Championship in Lagos state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis championship is crucial as it\u2019s aimed at giving youths an opportunity to explore their talents and economic activities built around the championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther, this engagement is going to trickle down to various communities across the State, promote friendship and sustainable community development agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a mandate to support the Lagos FA to reactive football in Lagos state and we are going to deliver\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"\/> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Post Views:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">133<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/street-soccer-championship-return-in-lagos\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising from its inaugural meeting, the Lagos Street Soccer Committee has commenced plans to kick off the Street Soccer Championship in the State before the end of the year at a date to be announced soon. Read Also: Kamaru Usman Eyes Showdown with Stephen \u201cWonderboy\u201d Thompson for UFC Comeback Ably present in the meeting was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}