{"id":353984,"date":"2026-06-10T01:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:37:16","slug":"oakland-mans-soccer-academy-builds-the-next-generation-of-players-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353984\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland man\u2019s soccer academy builds the next generation of players \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Bay Area, there is a diverse community that&#8217;s passionate about the game of soccer. That community includes Golden Boot Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in Oakland by Ethiopian immigrant Nigus Solomon, the academy trains professional athletes like U.S. women&#8217;s soccer star Naomi Girma. <\/p>\n<p>Golden Boot not only elevates young players at home but goes across the globe to give back to children who love the beautiful game. <\/p>\n<p>NBC Bay Area&#8217;s Gia Vang has more in the video report above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Bay Area, there is a diverse community that&#8217;s passionate about the game of soccer. That community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[15392,143,145,144,1083,5393],"class_list":["post-353984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-soccer","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}