{"id":67600,"date":"2026-04-02T16:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-gains-more-incentives-after-afcon-group-stage"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:11:42","slug":"likuena-gains-more-incentives-after-afcon-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-gains-more-incentives-after-afcon-group-stage","title":{"rendered":"Likuena Gains More Incentives After AFCON Group Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong> <\/span>The Lesotho Senior National Team, Likuena has received more support from local businesses after beating Seychelles to reach the Afcon 2027 group stage qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) President Mr Lijane Nthunya revealed at the dinner banquet held for the team by Member of Parliament (MP) for the Thaba- Bosiu Constituency and Lekope FM Owner, Mr Isaac Malebaleba at Lesotho Avani, that each member of the Likuena squad will receive M1000 from SIMA Communication, through a pledge made by Mr Sipho Masholugu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made a promise to you that LeFA working together with our Ministry will reward you once you have qualified for the group stage and now, I tell you that, you have the right get that money,\u201d LeFA President said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn top of that, as you heard me saying that this event has been graced by Lijabatho President, Mr Sipho Masholugu from SIMA Communications, who has been impressed by your efforts and has made a contribution to give each and every player in the squad M1000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow you can see that when you show commitment and humility in your work, the hard work gets rewarded and my request to you is to continue to make Basotho proud and more good things will come your way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was during the same ceremony, where Minister of Tourism, Sports, Arts and Culture, Mr. Motlatsi Maqelepo announced that Likuena will get financial support from the Ministry when the group stage qualifiers begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident, I don\u2019t want to announce today how much I\u2019m going to give you for the CAF group stage, but there is somewhere I am going to tap and we will have another platform like this to make that announcement, I will announce how much I\u2019m going to give you\u201d Mr. Maqelepo said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sports Minister also made a vow to have Setsoto Stadium hosting international matches again and stated that he is working hand in hand with the LeFA President as well as the LSRC President Mr Baba Malephane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I want to tell you, working hand in hand with ntate Nthunya and ntate Baba and others, we have a full budget, and we will work together to make sure that Setsoto returns to meet the required standards of CAF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis thing of playing our games in Bloemfontein is very painful. As a country we have lost the pride, we lost the economic benefits that when the stadium is full, small businesses would be able to make money, but all of that needs to be fixed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Lesotho<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. The Lesotho Senior National Team, Likuena has received more support from local businesses after beating Seychelles to reach the Afcon 2027 group stage qualifiers. The Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) President Mr Lijane Nthunya revealed at the dinner banquet held for the team by Member of Parliament (MP) for the Thaba- Bosiu Constituency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-67600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","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>Likuena Gains More Incentives After AFCON Group Stage - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Lesotho. 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