{"id":21710,"date":"2025-10-28T20:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/football-is-life-the-gambian-administrator-on-a-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:41:01","slug":"football-is-life-the-gambian-administrator-on-a-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/football-is-life-the-gambian-administrator-on-a-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Football is life&#8217; &#8211; The Gambian administrator on a mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sainey Sissohore Mboge was labelled a &#8220;bad influence&#8221; as a child, just because she wanted to play football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But now the Gambian, who represented her country at a youth World Cup, is having the last laugh, having built herself a successful career in the game.  And she&#8217;s using that position to help young girls who also love to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed by Joshua Akinyemi<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Edited and produced by Ian Williams and Isaiah Akinremi<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/c4gpleexq1wo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sainey Sissohore Mboge was labelled a &#8220;bad influence&#8221; as a child, just because she wanted to play football. But now the Gambian, who represented her country at a youth World Cup, is having the last laugh, having built herself a successful career in the game. And she&#8217;s using that position to help young girls who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21712,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710\/revisions\/21712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}