{"id":180052,"date":"2024-09-06T21:18:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-zimbabwe-harambee-stars-held-to-barren-draw-by-zim-in-afcon-2025-qualifier-opener\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T19:18:24","slug":"kenya-zimbabwe-harambee-stars-held-to-barren-draw-by-zim-in-afcon-2025-qualifier-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-zimbabwe-harambee-stars-held-to-barren-draw-by-zim-in-afcon-2025-qualifier-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\/Zimbabwe: Harambee Stars Held to Barren Draw By Zim in Afcon 2025 Qualifier Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>National football team Harambee Stars was held to a 0-0 draw by Zimbabwe, in the opening Group J match of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, played at the Nambole Stadium in Kampala, Uganda, Friday evening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Stars didn&#8217;t have many open scoring chances, except an Eric Ouma opportunity eight minutes to time which was saved by the Zimbabwean keeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The visitors had quite a number of chances with keeper Bryne Omondi kept on his toes most of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Stars had to make a change&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409060591.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 National football team Harambee Stars was held to a 0-0 draw by Zimbabwe, in the opening Group J match of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, played at the Nambole Stadium in Kampala, Uganda, Friday evening. Stars didn&#8217;t have many open scoring chances, except an Eric Ouma opportunity eight minutes to time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":180053,"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":[9488,258,256,31713,6981,10442,7297,430,22394,257,13937,8496,254,9435,6923],"class_list":["post-180052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barren","tag-draw","tag-harambee","tag-held","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyazimbabwe","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-zim"],"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\/180052","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=180052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}