{"id":37656,"date":"2018-04-20T01:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/20\/steven-pienaar-sees-football-welcomes-as-great-way-to-bring-people-together\/"},"modified":"2018-04-20T01:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:01:06","slug":"steven-pienaar-sees-football-welcomes-as-great-way-to-bring-people-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=37656","title":{"rendered":"Steven Pienaar sees Football Welcomes as great way to bring people together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Former Everton midfielder now an ambassador for the club\u2022 Scheme is intended to help refugees settle in the countrySteven Pienaar retired from football at the start of March but that did not stop him from lacing up his boots again last week. Like the final days of his illustrious career, however, it did not quite go exactly to plan. \u201cI actually joined in for a bit of five-a-side,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was OK \u2013 the kids were happy because I lost twice but maybe tomorrow we can get some revenge.\u201dThe South African, who made more than 200 appearances for Everton in two spells, was back on Merseyside in his new role as club ambassador to take part in a weekly coaching session for refugees and asylum seekers. Part of Everton in the Community\u2019s efforts to provide support for some of Liverpool\u2019s most deprived people, Pienaar knows all about battling against the odds. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/apr\/20\/steven-pienaar-football-welcomes-amnesty-international\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Pienaar sees Football Welcomes as great way to bring people together<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Former Everton midfielder now an ambassador for the club\u2022 Scheme is intended to help refugees settle in the countrySteven Pienaar retired from football at the start of March but that did not stop him from lacing up his boots again last week. Like the final days of his illustrious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}