{"id":528,"date":"2024-06-23T03:44:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T03:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/?p=528"},"modified":"2024-06-23T03:44:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T03:44:52","slug":"singer-tems-hints-at-starting-womens-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/singer-tems-hints-at-starting-womens-football-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Tems Hints at Starting Women&#8217;s Football Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Nigerian singer Tems has announced plans to start a women&#8217;s football team.<br><br>Beyond her well-known music career, the Grammy award winner talked about her love for sports on a podcast.<br><br>She said, \u201cI love sports. I love sports, but if I could play football, I would. I\u2019m like a football fan.<br><br>\u201cI want to start a female football team. I think it is something that is needed. Like, why can\u2019t we just have something like a local tournament with the girls? I feel like it would be fun\u201d.<br><br>Tems also noted that the women&#8217;s football team would play in regional competitions since she thinks it will help the Nigerian women&#8217;s league a lot.<br><br>Tems rose to fame in 2020 when she and Wizkid made the popular song &#8220;Essence.&#8221;<br><br>She went on to do a remix featuring popular musician Justin Bieber, which earned her a Grammy nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian singer Tems has announced plans to start a women&#8217;s football team. Beyond her well-known music career, the Grammy award winner talked about her love for sports on a podcast. She said, \u201cI love sports. I love sports, but if I could play football, I would. I\u2019m like a football fan. \u201cI want to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-culture"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Tems-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanwomanmag.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}