{"id":51782,"date":"2014-01-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/51782\/hilton-smith-bags-another-achievementoranother-accolade-for-local-residentorlocal-sportswoman-on-the-rise-in-her-careeror\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T09:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T07:42:30","slug":"hilton-smith-bags-another-achievementoranother-accolade-for-local-residentorlocal-sportswoman-on-the-rise-in-her-careeror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/01\/14\/hilton-smith-bags-another-achievementoranother-accolade-for-local-residentorlocal-sportswoman-on-the-rise-in-her-careeror\/","title":{"rendered":"Local sportswoman on the rise in her career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston&#8217;s Fran Hilton-Smith, the South African Football Association&#8217;s (SAFA) technical director, has been elected to the newly-formed FIFA Women&#8217;s Football Task Force, whose duties will be to identify and harness global women&#8217;s football development.<\/p>\n<p>Having recognised the 25 years of women&#8217;s participation and involvement in football, FIFA created this new initiative, whose main goal is to develop a universal strategy for women&#8217;s football.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The other goal is to prioritise women&#8217;s football and develop a distinctive FIFA Women&#8217;s Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, should form part of the Brazil 2014 Legacy.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;To be the sole African representative on the newly formed Women&#8217;s Football Task Force is a huge honour,&#8221; said Hilton-Smith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I promise to do my best, especially in enhancing the development of the sport on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must develop the game in Africa, and one of the components of activating this is by identifying programmes that will uplift women&#8217;s football on the continent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hilton-Smith will represent the Confederation of African Football (CAF) region on the FIFA Women&#8217;s Football Task Force, which is chaired by Moya Dodd, of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The world football governing body will hold the first ever women&#8217;s task force meeting in Zurich, on January 15 (today, Wednesday).<\/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='d4a45417dc63cad037f89d1e3c9fd634'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilton- Smith bags another achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":51783,"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":[2609,2608,2604,2606,2605,2607,2603,979,2403,2404,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-51782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-caf","tag-confederation-of-african-football","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-womens-club-world-cup","tag-fifa-womens-football-task-force","tag-fifa-womens-world-cup","tag-fran-hilton-smith","tag-germiston","tag-safa","tag-south-african-football-association","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["caf","confederation of african football","FiFA","FIFA Women's Club World Cup","FIFA Women's Football Task Force","FIFA Women's World Cup","Fran Hilton-Smith","germiston","safa","south african football association","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51782","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=51782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}