{"id":34212,"date":"2013-08-28T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/34212\/top-class-soccer-in-germiston\/"},"modified":"2013-08-28T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T08:58:50","slug":"top-class-soccer-in-germiston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/08\/28\/top-class-soccer-in-germiston\/","title":{"rendered":"Top class soccer in Germiston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top class women&#8217;s football was on show at the weekend, at the Delville Sports Grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Gauteng Women&#8217;s Football tournament saw teams from all over the province show off their skills.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Each region was represented in the second year of the tournament, which aims to develop women&#8217;s football.<\/p>\n<p>Ekurhuleni&#8217;s u-13 side were the best performing local team.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They made it to the final of their tournament, only to lose to Tshwane in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Ekurhuleni finished second.<\/p>\n<p>Tshwane also won the u-19 tournament, proving to be powerful amongst the juniors.<\/p>\n<p>They beat West Rand in the final.<\/p>\n<p>West Rand won the senior tournament, beating Johannesburg in the final before breaking out in song and dance.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament was held over two days and saw top personalities showing up to support the teams.<\/p>\n<p>Banyana Banyana captain Janine van Wyk was one of the supporters at the event, and Orlando Pirates captain Lucky Lekgwathi was amongst the spectators on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng MEC of Sport Lebogang Maile was also seen at the tournament.<\/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='65b2bc9eb35261e785fdb1a9bc02b6b1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s football took centre stage in Germiston recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":34213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Cyril Lehong","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1589,979,1163,1119,1590],"class_list":["post-34212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-football","tag-germiston","tag-soccer","tag-sport-2","tag-womens-football"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["football","germiston","soccer","sport","women's football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34212","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=34212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}