{"id":112477,"date":"2016-02-03T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112477\/help-the-germiston-city-football-club\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:10:02","slug":"help-the-germiston-city-football-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/02\/03\/help-the-germiston-city-football-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Help the Germiston City Football Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City Football Club is appealing to the community and local businesses to come forward and help their young players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt breaks my heart that some of the players do not have money for transport or equipment,\u201d said Peter Oliver, chairman of the football club.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The club was formed in 1955 and is the oldest existing football club in Germiston, and fields 12 teams, from u-10s to seniors and even a veteran team, with teams taking part in a variety of leagues and tournaments throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur players come from our local communities, with very few being able to afford the subscriptions it takes to keep running the club successfully,\u201d said Oliver.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>To keep the dreams of the players alive the club is appealing for sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to get involved in the club or would like more information on the club, contact Oliver on 076 431 2391.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You might also be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/101581\/primrose-team-takes-cup\/\">Primrose team takes cup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/98140\/second-in-the-league\/\">Second in the league<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112432\/senior-football-trials-held-at-germiston-city-fc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senior football trials held at Germiston City FC<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='be67474fc0aa8f85f8e62a2fc182d5ee'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help young soccer players reach their full potential by sponsoring the Germiston City Football Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":112574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-112477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}