{"id":180316,"date":"2024-09-10T21:27:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T19:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-namibia-johannah-austin-dropped-as-firat-goes-with-twin-strike-option-against-namibia\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T21:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T19:27:05","slug":"kenya-namibia-johannah-austin-dropped-as-firat-goes-with-twin-strike-option-against-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-namibia-johannah-austin-dropped-as-firat-goes-with-twin-strike-option-against-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\/Namibia: Johannah, Austin Dropped As Firat Goes With Twin Strike Option Against Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Harambee Stars head coach Engin Firat, heavily criticized for playing without strikers against Zimbabwe last Friday, has gone for a twin-strike option in Tuesday night&#8217;s second 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Namibia in Johannesburg.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The tactician has made three changes from the team that started against Zimbabwe, one enforced and two tactical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Alphonce Omija came off injured in the first half, and was replaced by Amos Nondi, who will continue in the role on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409100638.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 Harambee Stars head coach Engin Firat, heavily criticized for playing without strikers against Zimbabwe last Friday, has gone for a twin-strike option in Tuesday night&#8217;s second 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Namibia in Johannesburg. The tactician has made three changes from the team that started against Zimbabwe, one enforced and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":180317,"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":[258,256,44174,9943,39992,33785,430,12571,4706,257,14453,254,2080,6742],"class_list":["post-180316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-austin","tag-dropped","tag-firat","tag-johannah","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyanamibia","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-option","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-twin"],"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\/180316","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=180316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}