{"id":10313,"date":"2022-02-19T11:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane"},"modified":"2022-02-19T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T12:26:18","slug":"lefa-celebrates-phatsoane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane","title":{"rendered":"LeFA celebrates Phat\u0161oane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) has commended prominent assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane and Mehalalitoe captain Boitumelo Rabale for their outstanding performance in their respective<\/p>\n<p>assignments recently. On February 06 2022 Phat\u0161oane, along with two South African referees Victor Gomes and Zakhele Siwele became the first referees from the Southern Africa to officiate the final of the<\/p>\n<p>continental showpiece, the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Rabale on the other hand won the first ever (Confederations of African Football) CAF Women\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Champion League final with her team, Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies FC in November last year. Phat\u0161oane and Rabale were both awarded with a certificate and trophy<\/p>\n<p>each. LeFA Media and Information Officer Mikia Kalati told the media on Monday that the association appreciates Phat\u0161oane for flying Lesotho flag high at the recently ended 2021 African Cup of Nations<\/p>\n<p>(AFCON) in Cameroon. Rabale received the same ceremonial service last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe association does not go beyond three months without hosting a training for<\/p>\n<p>referees. This is a huge investment for the association because in future it will have other referees similar to Phat\u0161oane,\u201d Kalati stated. Phat\u0161oane was humbled by the honour.<\/p>\n<p>He said it has taken him two years to officiate in the final, saying the experience was a dream come true. He enlightened that they were told two days<\/p>\n<p>before the final that they will officiate the AFCON finals. He said that came as a surprise to him because he thought he will at least officiate three to<\/p>\n<p>four AFCON tournaments before he could even think about officiating at the finals. \u201cWe were excited obviously to hear the announcement, we couldn\u2019t wait to officiate the final because it is every<\/p>\n<p>referees\u2019 dream to officiate the AFCON final,\u201d he said. Phat\u0161oane added that he is inspired by South Africa elite assistant referee Siwele. A Member of LeFA National Executive<\/p>\n<p>Committee (NEC) and Chairman of Lesotho Refereeing Association Tebalo Mpiti said they are pleased with Phat\u0161oane\u2019s performance towards his international assignments<\/p>\n<p>and sees him performing at the coming world cup tournament. He also encouraged the upcoming referees to take a leaf out of Phat\u0161oane\u2019s book because he always makes the association proud whenever he is assigned internationally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. The Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) has commended prominent assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane and Mehalalitoe captain Boitumelo Rabale for their outstanding performance in their respective assignments recently. On February 06 2022 Phat\u0161oane, along with two South African referees Victor Gomes and Zakhele Siwele became the first referees from the Southern Africa to officiate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[233,246,125,245],"class_list":["post-10313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-football","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LeFA celebrates Phat\u0161oane - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) has commended prominent assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane and Mehalalitoe captai ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LeFA celebrates Phat\u0161oane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) has commended prominent assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane and Mehalalitoe captai ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-19T11:49:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-19T12:26:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/02\/img-6210e1d1cf5f1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"478\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"LeFA celebrates Phat\u0161oane\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-19T11:49:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-19T12:26:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane\"},\"wordCount\":389,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/02\/img-6210e1d1cf5f1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"football\",\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lefa-celebrates-phatsoane\",\"name\":\"LeFA celebrates Phat\u0161oane - 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