{"id":5588,"date":"2021-11-08T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history"},"modified":"2021-11-08T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:07:32","slug":"phatsoane-makes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history","title":{"rendered":"Phat\u0161oane makes history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The prominent Lesotho Assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane is set for yet another milestone after being appointed to firstly officiate at the upcoming Olympic Games to be<\/p>\n

staged in Tokyo from July to August 2021. This is according to the media briefing statement issued by the football governing body \u2013 the Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It showed that Phat\u0161oane has already inked his name in the history books of football in the Mountain Kingdom when he became the first male referee to officiate at the Africa Cup of Nations<\/p>\n

(AFCON) in 2019 and the Under -17 World Cup held in Egypt and Brazil respectively. \u201cPhat\u0161oane will<\/p>\n

become the first football referee from Lesotho to officiate at the Olympics football tournament,\u201d LeFA statement reads. The statement further indicated that LeFA President Advocate Salemane Phafane Kings Council<\/p>\n

(KC) has congratulated Phat\u0161oane on yet another milestone becoming the first football referee in Lesotho to officiate at the Olympic Games. \u201cThis is a massive<\/p>\n

achievement not only for football, or Phat\u0161oane as an individual, but for the whole country. It shows that there is something we are doing right in football<\/p>\n

to have had a referee breaking all these records officiating in big competitions in the continent and globally in the last few days. He is a national asset and we are really humbled as LeFA to have produced a referee of his<\/p>\n

talents,\u201d LeFA President said. In an exclusive Interview with Informative Sport on Friday, LeFA Referees Coordinator Mohau Sent\u0161o revealed that Phat\u0161oane is one of the top football assistance referees in<\/p>\n

Lesotho. He congratulated him for this historic achievement of being appointed to officiate in the upcoming international multi-sport event and embraced him<\/p>\n

for being recognized as one of the hardest working referees in the country. \u201cSince Phat\u0161oane\u2019s arrival in the Lesotho Refereeing Association, he has shown commitment to his<\/p>\n

job and that is why earlier on he was once acknowledged by one of the world soccer governing bodies; the Federation of International Football Associations<\/p>\n

(FIFA) Instructors, who was instructingMember Associations (MA) Referee Course in the country who advised that in relation to<\/p>\n

Phat\u0161oane\u2019s outstanding abilities, it could be wise if he can be assigned to take part in International Refereeing,\u201d Sent\u0161o stated. Phat\u0161oane has officiated<\/p>\n

several football matches in the Lesotho Premier League, the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA), Confederation of African Football (CAF), the African Nations Championship (CHAN) Games and the under-17 World Cup.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Lesotho<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. The prominent Lesotho Assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane is set for yet another milestone after being appointed to firstly officiate at the upcoming Olympic Games to be staged in Tokyo from July to August 2021. This is according to the media briefing statement issued by the football governing body \u2013 the Lesotho Football […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[233,246,776,245],"class_list":["post-5588","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-history","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"\nPhat\u0161oane makes history - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The prominent Lesotho Assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane is set for yet another milestone after being appointed to firstl ...\" \/>\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\/phatsoane-makes-history\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phat\u0161oane makes history\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The prominent Lesotho Assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane is set for yet another milestone after being appointed to firstl ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history\" \/>\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=\"2021-11-08T12:27:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-08T13:07:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\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\/phatsoane-makes-history#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Phat\u0161oane makes history\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-08T12:27:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-08T13:07:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history\"},\"wordCount\":433,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"history\",\"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\/phatsoane-makes-history#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history\",\"name\":\"Phat\u0161oane makes history - Lesotho\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-08T12:27:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-08T13:07:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The prominent Lesotho Assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane is set for yet another milestone after being appointed to firstl ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":540,\"caption\":\"Phat\u0161oane makes history\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Phat\u0161oane makes history\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\",\"name\":\"Lesotho\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Phat\u0161oane makes history - Lesotho","description":"The prominent Lesotho Assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane is set for yet another milestone after being appointed to firstl ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Phat\u0161oane makes history","og_description":"The prominent Lesotho Assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane is set for yet another milestone after being appointed to firstl ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history","og_site_name":"Lesotho","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-11-08T12:27:45+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-11-08T13:07:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":540,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Phat\u0161oane makes history","datePublished":"2021-11-08T12:27:45+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-08T13:07:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history"},"wordCount":433,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Lesotho","history","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\/phatsoane-makes-history#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history","name":"Phat\u0161oane makes history - Lesotho","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg","datePublished":"2021-11-08T12:27:45+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-08T13:07:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The prominent Lesotho Assistant referee Souru Phat\u0161oane is set for yet another milestone after being appointed to firstl ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/11\/img-618920fac4226.jpg","width":720,"height":540,"caption":"Phat\u0161oane makes history"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/phatsoane-makes-history#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Phat\u0161oane makes history"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/","name":"Lesotho","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}