{"id":1172348,"date":"2022-08-10T00:42:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/west-africa-football-academy-wafa-set-to-be-closed-down\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T00:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:42:27","slug":"west-africa-football-academy-wafa-set-to-be-closed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/west-africa-football-academy-wafa-set-to-be-closed-down\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa Football Academy (WAFA) Set To Be Closed down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Management of WAFA has decided to closedown the academy which has given young Ghanaian footballers hope in life due to GFA refusal to admit them in Zone 3 in Division One. According to Angel Sports closed source revealed this them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/e688b608077a43d99819115c399fa107\"\/><\/p>\n<p>West Africa Football Academy formerly known as Feyenoord Soccer Academy in Gomoa Fetteh was playing in the Zone 2 of the Division 1 before their new owners took over and change the name and location to Sogakokpe in the Volta Region.<\/p>\n<p>WAFA got relegated last season from the 2021\/2022 Ghana Premier League and GFA has informed them to revert to their previous Zone for their Division one league games.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/524e874de3ad46129c99a47b02f3c498\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The West Africa Football Academy&#8217;s management has wrote to the FA to change their Zone from 2 to 3 but the FA still insist they go back to Zone 2.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the management has taken decision to closedown the facility and opt out from the Division One league if GFA decision will remain the same.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/f87ecbdc2aad4396a48b73eba3944471\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Allliveentnews (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\">\nAngel Sports<br \/>\nFeyenoord Soccer Academy<br \/>\nGhana Premier League<br \/>\nWAFA<br \/>\nWest Africa Football Academy<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Management of WAFA has decided to closedown the academy which has given young Ghanaian footballers hope in life due to GFA refusal to admit them in Zone 3 in Division One. According to Angel Sports closed source revealed this them. West Africa Football Academy formerly known as Feyenoord Soccer Academy in Gomoa Fetteh was playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3075,671,3929,1542,618,5519,916],"class_list":["post-1172348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-academy","tag-africa","tag-closed","tag-football","tag-set","tag-wafa","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172348","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=1172348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}