{"id":56976,"date":"2013-05-20T04:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=56976"},"modified":"2013-05-20T04:30:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T04:30:34","slug":"airtel-rising-stars-tournament-to-commence-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=56976","title":{"rendered":"Airtel Rising Stars tournament to commence soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The much awaited Airtel Rising Stars (ARS) tournament will soon commence but in a different style this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The ARS soccer talent programme aims to focus on identifying and nurturing budding soccer talent from the grassroots onto a national level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The first and second season of the programme, which followed a hugely successful inaugural year, provides a platform for upcoming soccer talent under the age of 17 to showcase their skills to leading scouts and coaches, giving them an opportunity to further their football skills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The ARS tournament has always attracted high profiled football stakeholders in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Airtel is working with the Sierra Leone Football Association, Youth Employment and Sports and National Youth Commission, to identify and nurture aspiring football stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At Season I, Sierra Leone\u2019s football legend, Mohamed Kallon launched the ARS and Season II, was launched by Manchester United Legend, Dwight Yorke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Airtel has set aside another big surprise for this third season of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much awaited Airtel Rising Stars (ARS) tournament will soon commence but in a different style this year. The ARS soccer talent programme aims to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":28263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[3600,9329],"class_list":["post-56976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-airtel","tag-airtel-rising-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}