{"id":868266,"date":"2026-08-23T06:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:46:10","slug":"nadeshiko-japans-saki-kumagai-hoping-to-encourage-more-girls-to-play-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868266\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadeshiko Japan\u2019s Saki Kumagai hoping to encourage more girls to play soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saki Kumagai, a defender for Nadeshiko Japan, is working to encourage more girls to play soccer while continuing her own career as an active player in England.<\/p>\n<p>Through the general incorporated association Nadeshiko Care, or Nadecare, where she serves as representative director, Kumagai, 35, ran a program from March to April that sent elementary school girls on an overseas soccer trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want children to experience the world as early as possible,\u201c\u00a0said Kumagai, who plays for the London City Lionesses in the Women\u2019s Super League. \u201cI want them to expand their own possibilities and options.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saki Kumagai, a defender for Nadeshiko Japan, is working to encourage more girls to play soccer while continuing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[301565,49,48,301563,301564,301562,561,82],"class_list":["post-868266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-2027-fifa-women","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nadeshiko-care","tag-nadeshiko-japan","tag-saki-kumagai","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}