{"id":130,"date":"2009-09-17T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2010\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2022-04-29T19:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:53:57","slug":"african-diy-football-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/african-diy-football-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"African DIY football skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/57ndLGhffwE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This film is one of what is apparently going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footballmadeinafrica.com\/\">a series of 50 short films<\/a> about football in Africa. Here&#8217;s what they have to say about it on YouTube:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our ambition, a year before the world cup 2010 in South-Africa, is to portray a positive vision of Africa, an Africa that lives, thrives, and enthuses on football. The films and portraits will bring to life moments: poignant, funny, and poetic stories and stills that reflect the imagination and energy that belong to the African soil. The authentic and loveable African spirit brought to life in a simple, memorable and relevant way. An honest, grass root portrayal of football made in Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see the other films, if this one is anything to go by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film is one of what is apparently going to be a series of 50 short films about football in Africa. Here&#8217;s what they have to say about it on YouTube: Our ambition, a year before the world cup 2010 in South-Africa, is to portray a positive vision of Africa, an Africa that lives, thrives, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ball"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}