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Nairobi \u2014 Former Gor Mahia forward Benson Omalla says he is ready to step up and be Kenya’s leading striker in the opening two games of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers if captain Michael Olunga will be unavailable.<\/em><\/p>\n Olunga picked up an injury in the opening weeks of the Qatar Stars League (QSL) and is highly likely to miss the first game against Zimbabwe on Friday in Kampala.<\/p>\n In his absence, Omalla, the FKF Premier League golden boot winner from last season, says he is ready to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Former Gor Mahia forward Benson Omalla says he is ready to step up and be Kenya’s leading striker in the opening two games of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers if captain Michael Olunga will be unavailable. Olunga picked up an injury in the opening weeks of the Qatar Stars League […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":179827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4688,430,257,13834,49427,9981,8479,254,9435,5165],"class_list":["post-179826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-olunga","tag-omalla","tag-problem","tag-ready","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-step"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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