{"id":1155261,"date":"2022-07-21T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/21\/the-african-football-is-growing-rapidly-south-africa-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:48:36","slug":"the-african-football-is-growing-rapidly-south-africa-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/21\/the-african-football-is-growing-rapidly-south-africa-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe African Football is Growing Rapidly\u201d &#8211; South Africa Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Head Coach of South Africa female national side Bayana Bayana, Desiree Ellis has expressed her view on rapid football development for women across the continent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/b1efe2515f994c068c775e70ff2b9ec5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Radio Gold after the CAF Women\u2019s Legends versus Morocco Women\u2019s Legends game, the experienced coach touched on the greater level of advancement for women\u2019s football in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen the result in the competition you know, we didn\u2019t expect the results that happened\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But if you don\u2019t bring your A game, that\u2019s the possibility. But is fantastic to see that the countries are all doing their best for women\u2019s football\u201d, she noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 12 teams and you underestimate at your own peril. You&#8217;ve seen them in this competition, I mean Togo did it, Cameroon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis, spoke about new entrants to this year\u2019s WAFCON tournament and future expectations of African Women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the debutant, you wouldn\u2019t have expected some of them to come here, some of the countries are not here\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe likes of Equatorial Guinea, two times champions. The likes of Mali, they were semifinalist, it shows that the game is growing and I expects more two years from now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The game ended with CAF Women\u2019s team winning by two goals to nil over their Moroccan counterpart with a brace from Cameroonian ex-striker, Ga\u00eblle Enganamouit.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfrican Football is Growing<br \/>\nCAF Women<br \/>\nDesiree Ellis<br \/>\nMorocco<br \/>\nSouth Africa<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Head Coach of South Africa female national side Bayana Bayana, Desiree Ellis has expressed her view on rapid football development for women across the continent. Speaking to Radio Gold after the CAF Women\u2019s Legends versus Morocco Women\u2019s Legends game, the experienced coach touched on the greater level of advancement for women\u2019s football in Africa. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[671,461,1763,1542,844,21110,2620],"class_list":["post-1155261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-coach","tag-growing","tag-rapidly","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}